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This article proposes a novel unsupervised learning framework for detecting the number of tunnel junctions in subterranean environments based on acquired 2D point clouds. The implementation of the framework provides valuable information for…

Drones, or general UAVs, equipped with cameras have been fast deployed with a wide range of applications, including agriculture, aerial photography, and surveillance. Consequently, automatic understanding of visual data collected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Pengfei Zhu , Longyin Wen , Dawei Du , Xiao Bian , Heng Fan , Qinghua Hu , Haibin Ling

We present a novel and effective method for detecting 3D primitives in cluttered, unorganized point clouds, without axillary segmentation or type specification. We consider the quadric surfaces for encapsulating the basic building blocks of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tolga Birdal , Benjamin Busam , Nassir Navab , Slobodan Ilic , Peter Sturm

Detecting objects from LiDAR point clouds is an important component of self-driving car technology as LiDAR provides high resolution spatial information. Previous work on point-cloud 3D object detection has re-purposed convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jiquan Ngiam , Benjamin Caine , Wei Han , Brandon Yang , Yuning Chai , Pei Sun , Yin Zhou , Xi Yi , Ouais Alsharif , Patrick Nguyen , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathon Shlens , Vijay Vasudevan

To address the challenges in UAV object detection, such as complex backgrounds, severe occlusion, dense small objects, and varying lighting conditions,this paper proposes PT-DETR based on RT-DETR, a novel detection algorithm specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Bingcong Huo , Zhiming Wang

Rapidly generating an optimal chasing motion of a drone to follow a dynamic target among obstacles is challenging due to numerical issues rising from multiple conflicting objectives and non-convex constraints. This study proposes to resolve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Boseong Felipe Jeon , Changhyeon Kim , Hojoon Shin , H. Jin Kim

Multiple object tracking (MOT) has been successfully investigated in computer vision. However, MOT for the videos captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is still challenging due to small object size, blurred object appearance, and very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Mufeng Yao , Jiaqi Wang , Jinlong Peng , Mingmin Chi , Chao Liu

As drone use has become more widespread, there is a critical need to ensure safety and security. A key element of this is robust and accurate drone detection and localization. While cameras and other optical sensors like LiDAR are commonly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuan Fang , Fangzhan Shi , Xijia Wei , Qingchao Chen , Kevin Chetty , Simon Julier

Producing traversability maps and understanding the surroundings are crucial prerequisites for autonomous navigation. In this paper, we address the problem of traversability assessment using point clouds. We propose a novel pillar feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yirui Chen , Pengjin Wei , Zhenhuan Liu , Bingchao Wang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu

For accomplishing a variety of missions in challenging environments, the capability of navigating with full autonomy while avoiding unexpected obstacles is the most crucial requirement for UAVs in real applications. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Han Chen , Peng Lu

Object discovery is a core task in computer vision. While fast progresses have been made in supervised object detection, its unsupervised counterpart remains largely unexplored. With the growth of data volume, the expensive cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuqi Wang , Yuntao Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Combining unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with through-the-wall radar can realize moving targets detection in complex building scenes. However, clutters generated by obstacles and static objects are always stronger and non-stationary, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Xiaodong Qu , Xiaolong Sun , Feiyang Liu , Hao Zhang , Shichao Zhong , Xiaopeng Yang

Point clouds captured by scanning devices are often incomplete due to occlusion. To overcome this limitation, point cloud completion methods have been developed to predict the complete shape of an object based on its partial input. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lintai Wu , Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou , Yong Xu

In data mining, density-based clustering, which entails classifying datapoints according to their distributions in some space, is an essential method to extract information from large datasets. With the advent of software-based radio,…

Detecting spoofing attacks on the positions of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) within a swarm is challenging. Traditional methods relying solely on individually reported positions and pairwise distance measurements are ineffective in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Siguo Bi , Kai Li , Shuyan Hu , Wei Ni , Cong Wang , Xin Wang

We propose a new method for fusing a LIDAR point cloud and camera-captured images in the deep convolutional neural network (CNN). The proposed method constructs a new layer called non-homogeneous pooling layer to transform features between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Zining Wang , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) are emerging as a promising technology for both environmental and infrastructure monitoring, with broad use in a plethora of applications. Many such applications require the use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Christos Kyrkou , George Plastiras , Stylianos Venieris , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Though a number of point cloud learning methods have been proposed to handle unordered points, most of them are supervised and require labels for training. By contrast, unsupervised learning of point cloud data has received much less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Jincen Jiang , Xuequan Lu , Wanli Ouyang , Meili Wang

Point clouds captured by scanning sensors are often perturbed by noise, which have a highly negative impact on downstream tasks (e.g. surface reconstruction and shape understanding). Previous works mostly focus on training neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Junsheng Zhou , Xingyu Shi , Haichuan Song , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Commercial UAVs are an emerging security threat as they are capable of carrying hazardous payloads or disrupting air traffic. To counter UAVs, we introduce an autonomous 3D target encirclement and interception strategy. Unlike traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Fen Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Rong Su