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Reliable detection, localization and identification of small drones is essential to promote safe, secure and privacy-respecting operation of Unmanned-Aerial Systems (UAS), or simply, drones. This is an increasingly challenging problem with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Thakshila Wimalajeewa Wewelwala , Thomas W. Tedesso , Tony Davis

Reliable deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered unknown environments requires accurate sensors for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied localization and obstacle avoidance. Such a requirement limits the usage…

Object detection in point clouds is an important aspect of many robotics applications such as autonomous driving. In this paper we consider the problem of encoding a point cloud into a format appropriate for a downstream detection pipeline.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Alex H. Lang , Sourabh Vora , Holger Caesar , Lubing Zhou , Jiong Yang , Oscar Beijbom

Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery is challenging, mainly due to scale variation, structural detail degradation, and limited computational resources. In high-altitude scenarios, fine-grained features are further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xuecheng Bai , Yuxiang Wang , Chuanzhi Xu , Boyu Hu , Kang Han , Ruijie Pan , Xiaowei Niu , Xiaotian Guan , Liqiang Fu , Pengfei Ye

Airborne topographic LiDAR is an active remote sensing technology that emits near-infrared light to map objects on the Earth's surface. Derived products of LiDAR are suitable to service a wide range of applications because of their rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mariona Caros , Ariadna Just , Santi Segui , Jordi Vitria

Accurate people localisation using drones is crucial for effective crowd management, not only during massive events and public gatherings but also for monitoring daily urban crowd flow. Traditional methods for tiny object localisation using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Bartosz Ptak , Marek Kraft

As robotics technology advances, dense point cloud maps are increasingly in demand. However, dense reconstruction using a single unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) suffers from limitations in flight speed and battery power, resulting in slow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yifei Dong , Shuhui Bu , Kun Li , Lin Chen , Zhenyu Xia , Yu Wang , Pengcheng Han , Xuefeng Cao , Ke Li

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery presents significant challenges. Issues such as densely packed small objects, scale variations, and occlusion are commonplace. This paper introduces RT-DETR++, which enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yuan Shufang

This paper proposes a novel approach to object detection on drone imagery, namely Multi-Proxy Detection Network with Unified Foreground Packing (UFPMP-Det). To deal with the numerous instances of very small scales, different from the common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yecheng Huang , Jiaxin Chen , Di Huang

The interest in 3D dynamical tracking is growing in fields such as robotics, biology and fluid dynamics. Recently, a major source of progress in 3D tracking has been the study of collective behaviour in biological systems, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Andrea Cavagna , Chiara Creato , Lorenzo Del Castello , Stefania Melillo , Leonardo Parisi , Massimiliano Viale

Avoiding hybrid obstacles in unknown scenarios with an efficient flight strategy is a key challenge for unmanned aerial vehicle applications. In this paper, we introduce a technique to distinguish dynamic obstacles from static ones with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Han Chen , Peng Lu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially drones, equipped with vision techniques have become very popular in recent years, with their extensive use in wide range of applications. Many of these applications require use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Subrahmanyam Vaddi , Chandan Kumar , Ali Jannesari

How can we effectively engineer a computer vision system that is able to interpret videos from unconstrained mobility platforms like UAVs? One promising option is to make use of image restoration and enhancement algorithms from the area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Sreya Banerjee , Rosaura G. VidalMata , Zhangyang Wang , Walter J. Scheirer

In response to the evolving challenges posed by small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which possess the potential to transport harmful payloads or independently cause damage, we introduce MMAUD: a comprehensive Multi-Modal Anti-UAV…

Drones have proven to be useful in many industry segments such as security and surveillance, where e.g. on-board real-time object tracking is a necessity for autonomous flying guards. Tracking and following suspicious objects is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Maarten Vandersteegen , Kristof Vanbeeck , Toon goedeme

To detect unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in real-time, computer vision and deep learning approaches are evolving research areas. Interest in this problem has grown due to concerns regarding the possible hazards and misuse of employing UAVs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Adnan Munir , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Saeed Anwar

In this paper, we propose a novel edge and corner detection algorithm for an unorganized point cloud. Our edge detection method classifies a query point as an edge point by evaluating the distribution of local neighboring points around the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Mohit Vohra , Ravi Prakash , Laxmidhar Behera

The use of commercial Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) has surged in the past decade, offering societal benefits but also raising risks such as airspace violations and privacy concerns. Due to the increased security risks, the development of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Sándor Gazdag , Tom Möller , Anita Keszler , András L. Majdik

Point clouds are widely used representations of 3D data, but determining the visibility of points from a given viewpoint remains a challenging problem due to their sparse nature and lack of explicit connectivity. Traditional methods, such…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jun-Hao Wang , Yi-Yang Tian , Baoquan Chen , Peng-Shuai Wang

The extensive application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and related domains has created an urgent need for accurate and efficient multi-object tracking (MOT) technologies, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Juanqin Liu , Leonardo Plotegher , Eloy Roura , Shaoming He