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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with mounted cameras have the advantage of capturing aerial (bird-view) images. The availability of aerial visual data and the recent advances in object detection algorithms led the computer vision community…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ilker Bozcan , Erdal Kayacan

Ultra-wideband (UWB) through-wall radar has a wide range of applications in non-contact human information detection and monitoring. With the integration of machine learning technology, its potential prospects include the physiological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Zhengliang Zhu , Degui Yang , Junchao Zhang , Feng Tong

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is increasingly central to the development of intelligent autonomous systems for applications such as search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and…

Absolute Visual Localization (AVL) enables an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to determine its position in GNSS-denied environments by establishing geometric relationships between UAV images and geo-tagged reference maps. While many previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yibin Ye , Xichao Teng , Shuo Chen , Leqi Liu , Kun Wang , Xiaokai Song , Zhang Li

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

Navigation applications relying on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) are limited in indoor environments and GNSS-denied outdoor terrains such as dense urban or forests. In this paper, we present a novel accurate, robust and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Qin Shi , Xiaowei Cui , Wei Li , Yu Xia , Mingquan Lu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming largely ubiquitous with an increasing demand for aerial data. Accurate navigation and localization, required for precise data collection in many industrial applications, often relies on RTK GNSS.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yu Xianjia , Li Qingqing , Jorge Pena Queralta , Jukka Heikkonen , Tomi Westerlund

The rapid movements and agile maneuvers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) induce significant observational challenges for multi-object tracking (MOT). However, existing UAV-perspective MOT benchmarks often lack these complexities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jingtao Ye , Kexin Zhang , Xunchi Ma , Yuehan Li , Guangming Zhu , Peiyi Shen , Linhua Jiang , Xiangdong Zhang , Liang Zhang

This paper introduces UVIO, a multi-sensor framework that leverages Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology and Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) to provide robust and low-drift localization. In order to include range measurements in state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Giulio Delama , Farhad Shamsfakhr , Stephan Weiss , Daniele Fontanelli , Alessandro Fornasier

In this letter, we present an uncertainty-aware single-anchor Ultra-Wideband (UWB)-based 3D tracking framework. Specifically, a mobile Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) maintains a desired standoff distance to a moving target using range and 3D…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Yuqi Ping , Junwei Wu , Bofeng Zheng , Fan Liu , Tianhao Liang , Tingting Zhang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables agents to navigate in complex environments by following natural language instructions grounded in visual observations. Although most existing work has focused on ground-based robots or outdoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xu Liu , Yu Liu , Hanshuo Qiu , Yang Qirong , Zhouhui Lian

Localization of objects is vital for robot-object interaction. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) application in robotics is an emerging and widely used object localization technique due to its accurate distance measurement, long-range,…

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection and aerial object recognition are critical for modern surveillance and security, prompting a need for robust systems that overcome limitations of single-modality approaches. This research addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mauro Larrat , Claudomiro Sales

Environment mapping is an essential prerequisite for mobile robots to perform different tasks such as navigation and mission planning. With the availability of low-cost 2D LiDARs, there are increasing applications of such 2D LiDARs in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ran Liu , Yongping He , Chau Yuen , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Rashid Ali , Wenpeng Fu , Zhiqiang Cao

The application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been widely extended recently. It is crucial to ensure accurate latitude and longitude coordinates for UAVs, especially when the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are disrupted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wenjia Xu , Yaxuan Yao , Jiaqi Cao , Zhiwei Wei , Chunbo Liu , Jiuniu Wang , Mugen Peng

Accurate perception of UAVs in complex low-altitude environments is critical for airspace security and related intelligent systems. Developing reliable solutions requires large-scale, accurately annotated, and multimodal data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Longkun Zou , Jiale Wang , Rongqin Liang , Hai Wu , Ke Chen , Yaowei Wang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer wide-ranging applications but also pose significant safety and privacy violation risks in areas like airport and infrastructure inspection, spurring the rapid development of Anti-UAV technologies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunhui Zhang , Li Liu , Zhipeng Zhang , Yong Wang , Hao Wen , Xi Zhou , Shiming Ge , Yanfeng Wang

The consumer UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) market has grown significantly over the past few years. Despite its huge potential in spurring economic growth by supporting various applications, the increase of consumer UAVs poses potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Amir Alipour-Fanid , Monireh Dabaghchian , Ning Wang , Pu Wang , Liang Zhao , Kai Zeng

Visual data collected from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has opened a new frontier of computer vision that requires automated analysis of aerial images/videos. However, the existing UAV datasets primarily focus on object detection. An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Murari Mandal , Lav Kush Kumar , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

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