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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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based object detection is a critical but challenging task, when applied in dynamically changing scenarios with limited annotated training data. Layout-to-image generation approaches have proved effective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Wenhao Li , Zimeng Wu , Yu Wu , Zehua Fu , Jiaxin Chen

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

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images has emerged as a focal area of research, which presents two significant challenges: i) objects are typically small and dense within vast images; ii) computational resource constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chen Li , Rui Zhao , Zeyu Wang , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu

This paper addresses the problem of multi-object tracking in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) footage. It plays a critical role in various UAV applications, including traffic monitoring systems and real-time suspect tracking by the police.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 InPyo Song , Jangwon Lee

Real-time object detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a challenging issue due to the limited computing resources of edge GPU devices as Internet of Things (IoT) nodes. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Wei Zhou , Xuanlin Min , Rui Hu , Yiwen Long , Huan Luo , JunYi

Absolute localization, aiming to determine an agent's location with respect to a global reference, is crucial for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various applications, but it becomes challenging when global navigation satellite system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xiangkai Zhang , Xiang Zhou , Mao Chen , Yuchen Lu , Xu Yang , Zhiyong Liu

Real-time small object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery remains challenging due to limited feature representation and ineffective multi-scale fusion. Existing methods underutilize frequency information and rely on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yu Xia , Chang Liu , Tianqi Xiang , Zhigang Tu

Drone-based target detection presents inherent challenges, such as the high density and overlap of targets in drone-based images, as well as the blurriness of targets under varying lighting conditions, which complicates identification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yuchen Zheng , Yuxin Jing , Jufeng Zhao , Guangmang Cui

We propose a fixed-lag smoother-based sensor fusion architecture to leverage the complementary benefits of range-based sensors and visual-inertial odometry (VIO) for localization. We use two fixed-lag smoothers (FLS) to decouple accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Abhishek Goudar , Wenda Zhao , Angela P. Schoellig

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, UAVs have become crucial for measurement and tracking in patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied areas, satellite-based localization methods are prone to failure. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tao Liu , Kan Ren , Qian Chen

Object tracking has been broadly applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tasks in recent years. However, existing algorithms still face difficulties such as partial occlusion, clutter background, and other challenging visual factors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yujie He , Changhong Fu , Fuling Lin , Yiming Li , Peng Lu

Multi-UAV collaborative 3D object detection can perceive and comprehend complex environments by integrating complementary information, with applications encompassing traffic monitoring, delivery services and agricultural management.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Pengju Tian , Peirui Cheng , Yuchao Wang , Zhechao Wang , Zhirui Wang , Menglong Yan , Xue Yang , Xian Sun

Satellite remote sensing images pose significant challenges for object detection due to their high resolution, complex scenes, and large variations in target scales. To address the insufficient detection accuracy of the YOLOv11n model in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuaiyu Zhu , Sergey Ablameyko

Detecting small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from a ground-to-air (G2A) perspective presents significant challenges, including extremely low pixel occupancy, cluttered aerial backgrounds, and strict real-time constraints. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pengyu Chen , Haotian Sa , Yiwei Hu , Yuhan Cheng , Junbo Wang

Generalist models have achieved remarkable success in both language and vision-language tasks, showcasing the potential of unified modeling. However, effectively integrating fine-grained perception tasks like detection and segmentation into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hao Tang , Chenwei Xie , Haiyang Wang , Xiaoyi Bao , Tingyu Weng , Pandeng Li , Yun Zheng , Liwei Wang

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

Detecting objects from UAV-captured images is challenging due to the small object size. In this work, a simple and efficient adaptive zoom-in framework is explored for object detection on UAV images. The main motivation is that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Tao Wang , Chenyu Lin , Chenwei Tang , Jizhe Zhou , Deng Xiong , Jianan Li , Jian Zhao , Jiancheng Lv

Small object detection under complex backgrounds remains a challenging task due to severe feature degradation, weak semantic representation, and inaccurate localization caused by downsampling operations and background interference. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Wenguang Tao , Xiaotian Wang , Tian Yan , Yi Wang , Jie Yan

To enhance perception in autonomous vehicles (AVs), recent efforts are concentrating on 3D object detectors, which deliver more comprehensive predictions than traditional 2D object detectors, at the cost of increased memory footprint and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Abhishek Balasubramaniam , Febin P Sunny , Sudeep Pasricha