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Recent advances in camera equipped drone applications and their widespread use increased the demand on vision based object detection algorithms for aerial images. Object detection process is inherently a challenging task as a generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Berat Mert Albaba , Sedat Ozer

Object detection in aerial images is a challenging task due to the following reasons: (1) objects are small and dense relative to images; (2) the object scale varies in a wide range; (3) the number of object in different classes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zhiwei Wei , Chenzhen Duan , Xinghao Song , Ye Tian , Hongpeng Wang

Visual detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a critical task in surveillance systems due to their small physical size and environmental challenges. Although deep learning models have achieved significant progress, deploying them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Amir Zamani , Zeinab Abedini

Developing reliable UAV navigation systems requires robust air-to-air object detectors capable of distinguishing between objects seen during training and previously unseen objects. While many methods address closed-set detection and achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Spyridon Loukovitis , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos

Detecting objects from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is often hindered by a large number of small objects, resulting in low detection accuracy. To address this issue, mainstream approaches typically utilize multi-stage inferences. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fan Liu , Liang Yao , Chuanyi Zhang , Ting Wu , Xinlei Zhang , Xiruo Jiang , Jun Zhou

Object detection has been one of the most active topics in computer vision for the past years. Recent works have mainly focused on pushing the state-of-the-art in the general-purpose COCO benchmark. However, the use of such detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Manuel Carranza-García , Pedro Lara-Benítez , Jorge García-Gutiérrez , José C. Riquelme

Applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in logistics, agricultural automation, urban management, and emergency response are highly dependent on oriented object detection (OOD) to enhance visual perception. Although existing datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kai Ye , Haidi Tang , Bowen Liu , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Detecting objects in aerial images is challenging for at least two reasons: (1) target objects like pedestrians are very small in pixels, making them hardly distinguished from surrounding background; and (2) targets are in general sparsely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Fan Yang , Heng Fan , Peng Chu , Erik Blasch , Haibin Ling

Detection of small-sized targets in aerial views is a challenging task due to the smallness of vehicle size, complex background, and monotonic object appearances. In this letter, we propose a one-stage vehicle detection network (AVDNet) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Murari Mandal , Manal Shah , Prashant Meena , Sanhita Devi , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Precisely detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) plays a critical role in UAV defense systems. Deep learning is widely adopted for UAV object detection whereas researches on this topic are limited by the amount of dataset and small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chen Rui , Guo Youwei , Zheng Huafei , Jiang Hongyu

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 past few years have seen an increased interest in aerial image object detection due to its critical value to large-scale geo-scientific research like environmental studies, urban planning, and intelligence monitoring. However, the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Liya Wang , Alex Tien

Detection of artificial objects from underwater imagery gathered by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is a key requirement for many subsea applications. Real-world AUV image datasets tend to be very large and unlabelled. Furthermore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Suraj Bijjahalli , Oscar Pizarro , Stefan B. Williams

Rotated object detection in aerial images has received increasing attention for a wide range of applications. However, it is also a challenging task due to the huge variations of scale, rotation, aspect ratio, and densely arranged targets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Feng Zhang , Xueying Wang , Shilin Zhou , Yingqian Wang

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), have intrigued different people from all walks of life, because of their pervasive computing capabilities. UAV equipped with vision techniques, could be leveraged to establish navigation autonomous control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Xiaoliang Wang , Peng Cheng , Xinchuan Liu , Benedict Uzochukwu

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

With the rapid advancement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and computer vision technologies, object detection from UAV perspectives has emerged as a prominent research area. However, challenges for detection brought by the extremely small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Liugang Lu , Dabin He , Congxiang Liu , Zhixiang Deng

This paper investigates and develops methods for detecting small objects in large-scale aerial images. Current approaches for detecting small objects in aerial images often involve image cropping and modifications to detector network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mahila Moghadami , Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad , Melika Sabaghian