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While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in several missions, their inability of reliable and consistent autonomous landing poses a major setback for deploying such systems truly autonomously. In this paper we present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Michalis Piponidis , Panayiotis Aristodemou , Theocharis Theocharides

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently shown great performance collecting visual data through autonomous exploration and mapping in building inspection. Yet, the number of studies is limited considering the post processing of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Fatih Kucuksubasi , Arzu Sorguc

3D object detection based on LiDAR-camera fusion is becoming an emerging research theme for autonomous driving. However, it has been surprisingly difficult to effectively fuse both modalities without information loss and interference. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Guojun Wang , Bin Tian , Yachen Zhang , Long Chen , Dongpu Cao , Jian Wu

Visual object tracking (VOT) plays a pivotal role in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. Addressing the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency, especially under challenging conditions like unpredictable occlusion, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yang Zhou , Derui Ding , Ran Sun , Ying Sun , Haohua Zhang

Transformer-based visual object tracking has been utilized extensively. However, the Transformer structure is lack of enough inductive bias. In addition, only focusing on encoding the global feature does harm to modeling local details,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Changhong Fu , Weiyu Peng , Sihang Li , Junjie Ye , Ziang Cao

Hyperspectral cameras can provide unique spectral signatures for consistently distinguishing materials that can be used to solve surveillance tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel real-time hyperspectral likelihood maps-aided tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Burak Uzkent , Aneesh Rangnekar , M. J. Hoffman

The high mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enables them to be used in various civilian fields, such as rescue and cargo transport. Path-following is a crucial way to perform these tasks while sensing and collision avoidance are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Changheng Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Wangjun Jiang , Haoyue Jiang , Zhiyong Feng

Object detection in camera images, using deep learning has been proven successfully in recent years. Rising detection rates and computationally efficient network structures are pushing this technique towards application in production…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Felix Nobis , Maximilian Geisslinger , Markus Weber , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

Radar Automated Target Recognition (RATR) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) involves transmitting Electromagnetic Waves (EMWs) and performing target type recognition on the received radar echo, crucial for defense and aerospace…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Michael Potter , Murat Akcakaya , Marius Necsoiu , Gunar Schirner , Deniz Erdogmus , Tales Imbiriba

Accurate and robust object detection is critical for autonomous driving. Image-based detectors face difficulties caused by low visibility in adverse weather conditions. Thus, radar-camera fusion is of particular interest but presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Huawei Sun , Hao Feng , Georg Stettinger , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can pose a major risk for aviation safety, due to both negligent and malicious use. For this reason, the automated detection and tracking of UAV is a fundamental task in aerial security systems. Common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Matt Poyser , Daniel Organisciak , Chris G. Willcocks , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to classify sub-classes of objects in the same super-class (e.g., species of birds, models of cars). For the FGVC tasks, the essential solution is to find discriminative subtle information of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chenyu Guo , Jiyang Xie , Kongming Liang , Xian Sun , Zhanyu Ma

Object detection has been extensively utilized in autonomous systems in recent years, encompassing both 2D and 3D object detection. Recent research in this field has primarily centered around multimodal approaches for addressing this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Wendong Zhang

Multisensor track-to-track fusion for target tracking involves two primary operations: track association and estimation fusion. For estimation fusion, lossless measurement transformation of sensor measurements has been proposed for single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Haiqi Liu , Jiajie Sun , Xuqi Zhang , Fanqin Meng , Xiaojing Shen , Pramod K. Varshney

In end-to-end autonomous driving, the utilization of existing sensor fusion techniques and navigational control methods for imitation learning proves inadequate in challenging situations that involve numerous dynamic agents. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Pedram Agand , Mohammad Mahdavian , Manolis Savva , Mo Chen

Nighttime UAV tracking presents significant challenges due to extreme illumination variations and viewpoint changes, which severely degrade tracking performance. Existing approaches either rely on light enhancers with high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xuzhao Li , Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu

In this paper a vision-based system for detection, motion tracking and following of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with other UAV (follower) is presented. For detection of an airborne UAV we apply a convolutional neural network YOLO trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Antonella Barisic , Marko Car , Stjepan Bogdan

Small object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery is a persistent challenge, hindered by low resolution and background clutter. While fusing RGB and infrared (IR) data offers a promising solution, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shuyu Cao , Minxin Chen , Yucheng Song , Zhaozhong Chen , Xinyou Zhang

3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving. As an emerging sensor, 4D imaging radar offers advantages as low cost, long-range detection, and accurate velocity measurement, making it highly suitable for object detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaozhi Li , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

We propose TRADE for robust tracking and 3D localization of a moving target in cluttered environments, from UAVs equipped with a single camera. Ultimately TRADE enables 3d-aware target following. Tracking-by-detection approaches are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Pedro F. Proença , Patrick Spieler , Robert A. Hewitt , Jeff Delaune