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Drones or general Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), endowed with computer vision function by on-board cameras and embedded systems, have become popular in a wide range of applications. However, real-time scene parsing through object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Pengyi Zhang , Yunxin Zhong , Xiaoqiong Li

Object detection in fire rescue scenarios is importance for command and decision-making in firefighting operations. However, existing research still suffers from two main limitations. First, current work predominantly focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Qingyu Xu , Runtong Zhang , Zihuan Qiu , Fanman Meng

Object detection is increasingly used onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for various applications; however, the machine learning (ML) models for UAV-based detection are often validated using data curated for tasks unrelated to the UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Eung-Joo Lee , Damon M. Conover , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyyaa , Heesung Kwon , Jason Hill , Kenneth Evensen

To address the issues of weak correlation between multi-view features, low recognition accuracy of small-scale targets, and insufficient robustness in complex scenarios in underground pipeline detection using 3D GPR, this paper proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Haotian Lv , Chao Li , Jiangbo Dai , Yuhui Zhang , Zepeng Fan , Yiqiu Tan , Dawei Wang , Binglei Xie

Leveraging multi-modal fusion, especially between camera and LiDAR, has become essential for building accurate and robust 3D object detection systems for autonomous vehicles. Until recently, point decorating approaches, in which point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Philip Jacobson , Yiyang Zhou , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ming C. Wu

Now a days, UAVs such as drones are greatly used for various purposes like that of capturing and target detection from ariel imagery etc. Easy access of these small ariel vehicles to public can cause serious security threats. For instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Aleena Ajaz , Ayesha Salar , Tauseef Jamal , Asif Ullah Khan

This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target, and UAVs operate in half-duplex mode.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

State-of-the-art LiDAR-camera 3D object detectors usually focus on feature fusion. However, they neglect the factor of depth while designing the fusion strategy. In this work, we are the first to observe that different modalities play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mingqian Ji , Jian Yang , Shanshan Zhang

With the rapid development of remote sensing technology, crop classification and health detection based on deep learning have gradually become a research hotspot. However, the existing target detection methods show poor performance when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Linlin Xiao , Zhang Tiancong , Yutong Jia , Xinyu Nie , Mengyao Wang , Xiaohang Shao

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

LiDAR and camera fusion techniques are promising for achieving 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Most multi-modal 3D object detection frameworks integrate semantic knowledge from 2D images into 3D LiDAR point clouds to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Ziying Song , Jin Fang , Sifen Wang , Zhi-Xin Yang

Multi-sensor modal fusion has demonstrated strong advantages in 3D object detection tasks. However, existing methods that fuse multi-modal features require transforming features into the bird's eye view space and may lose certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chunyong Hu , Hang Zheng , Kun Li , Jianyun Xu , Weibo Mao , Maochun Luo , Lingxuan Wang , Mingxia Chen , Qihao Peng , Kaixuan Liu , Yiru Zhao , Peihan Hao , Minzhe Liu , Kaicheng Yu

We propose DeepFusion, a modular multi-modal architecture to fuse lidars, cameras and radars in different combinations for 3D object detection. Specialized feature extractors take advantage of each modality and can be exchanged easily,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Florian Drews , Di Feng , Florian Faion , Lars Rosenbaum , Michael Ulrich , Claudius Gläser

Computer vision-based object detection is a key modality for advanced Detect-And-Avoid systems that allow for autonomous flight missions of UAVs. While standard object detection frameworks do not predict the actual depth of an object, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 David Silva , Nicolas Jourdan , Nils Gählert

Object detection is a critical problem for the safe interaction between autonomous vehicles and road users. Deep-learning methodologies allowed the development of object detection approaches with better performance. However, there is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Andrés Gómez , Thomas Genevois , Jerome Lussereau , Christian Laugier

Unsupervised object discovery (UOD) has recently shown encouraging progress with the adoption of pre-trained Transformer features. However, current methods based on Transformers mainly focus on designing the localization head (e.g., seed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zhiwei Lin , Zengyu Yang , Yongtao Wang

With the advantage of high mobility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used to fuel numerous important applications in computer vision, delivering more efficiency and convenience than surveillance cameras with fixed camera angle, scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Dawei Du , Yuankai Qi , Hongyang Yu , Yifan Yang , Kaiwen Duan , Guorong Li , Weigang Zhang , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

Traditional object detection models are constrained by the limitations of closed-set datasets, detecting only categories encountered during training. While multimodal models have extended category recognition by aligning text and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Lihao Liu , Juexiao Feng , Hui Chen , Ao Wang , Lin Song , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Multispectral object detection, which integrates information from multiple bands, can enhance detection accuracy and environmental adaptability, holding great application potential across various fields. Although existing methods have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Dahang Wan , Rongsheng Lu , Yang Fang , Xianli Lang , Shuangbao Shu , Jingjing Chen , Siyuan Shen , Ting Xu , Zecong Ye

The rise of autonomous vehicles has significantly increased the demand for robust 3D object detection systems. While cameras and LiDAR sensors each offer unique advantages--cameras provide rich texture information and LiDAR offers precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zitian Wang , Zehao Huang , Yulu Gao , Naiyan Wang , Si Liu