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Drone detection in visually complex environments remains challenging due to background clutter, small object scale, and camouflage effects. While generic object detectors like YOLO exhibit strong performance in low-texture scenes, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Tobias Koch

Animal populations worldwide are rapidly declining, and a technology that can accurately count endangered species could be vital for monitoring population changes over several years. This research focused on fine-tuning object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Sowmya Sankaran

Obstacle avoidance is a key feature for safe Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation. While solutions have been proposed for static obstacle avoidance, systems enabling avoidance of dynamic objects, such as drones, are hard to implement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Adrian Carrio , Sai Vemprala , Andres Ripoll , Srikanth Saripalli , Pascual Campoy

The rapid deployment of drones poses significant challenges for airspace management, security, and surveillance. Current detection and classification technologies, including cameras, LiDAR, and conventional radar systems, often struggle to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 O. Yerushalimov , D. Vovchuk , A. Glam , P. Ginzburg

As drone-based object detection technology continues to evolve, the demand is shifting from merely detecting objects to enabling users to accurately identify specific targets. For example, users can input particular targets as prompts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hyun-Ki Jung

As the threats of small drones increase, not only the detection but also the classification of small drones has become important. Many recent studies have applied an approach to utilize the micro-Doppler signature (MDS) for the small drone…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Junhyeong Park , Jun-Sung Park , Seong-Ook Park

Tracking small, agile multi-objects (SMOT), such as birds, from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) perspective is a highly challenging computer vision task. The difficulty stems from three main sources: the extreme scarcity of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xiang Yu , Xinyao Liu , Guang Liang

Detecting small objects, such as drones, over long distances presents a significant challenge with broad implications for security, surveillance, environmental monitoring, and autonomous systems. Traditional imaging-based methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junran Guo , Tonglin Mu , Keyuan Li , Jianing Li , Ziyang Luo , Ye Chen , Xiaodong Fan , Jinquan Huang , Minjie Liu , Jinbei Zhang , Ruoyang Qi , Naiting Gu , Shihai Sun

This paper discusses the challenges of detecting and categorizing small drones with radar automatic target recognition (ATR) technology. The authors suggest integrating ATR capabilities into drone detection radar systems to improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jiangkun Gong , Jun Yan , Deyong Kong , Deren Li

Small object detection remains a challenging problem in the field of object detection. To address this challenge, we propose an enhanced YOLOv8-based model, SOD-YOLO. This model integrates an ASF mechanism in the neck to enhance multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Peijun Wang , Jinhua Zhao

Drone detection has become an essential task in object detection as drone costs have decreased and drone technology has improved. It is, however, difficult to detect distant drones when there is weak contrast, long range, and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Fatih Cagatay Akyon , Erdem Akagunduz , Sinan Onur Altinuc , Alptekin Temizel

Drones have proven to be useful in many industry segments such as security and surveillance, where e.g. on-board real-time object tracking is a necessity for autonomous flying guards. Tracking and following suspicious objects is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Maarten Vandersteegen , Kristof Vanbeeck , Toon goedeme

The detection of small objects in aerial images is a fundamental task in the field of computer vision. Moving objects in aerial photography have problems such as different shapes and sizes, dense overlap, occlusion by the background, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Haodong Li , Haicheng Qu

This paper explores the process of designing an automatic multi-sensor drone detection system. Besides the common video and audio sensors, the system also includes a thermal infrared camera, which is shown to be a feasible solution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Fredrik Svanstrom , Cristofer Englund , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez

Drone detection has benefited from improvements in deep neural networks, but like many other applications, suffers from the availability of accurate data for training. Synthetic data provides a potential for low-cost data generation and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mariusz Wisniewski , Zeeshan A. Rana , Ivan Petrunin , Alan Holt , Stephen Harman

The use of small and remotely controlled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, has increased in recent years. This goes in parallel with misuse episodes, with an evident threat to the safety of people or facilities. As a result, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Fredrik Svanström , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Cristofer Englund

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically drones equipped with remote sensing object detection technology, have rapidly gained a broad spectrum of applications and emerged as one of the primary research focuses in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Feng Xiong , Hanzheng Hu , Zhengnan Jiang

Drones or UAVs, equipped with different sensors, have been deployed in many places especially for urban traffic monitoring or last-mile delivery. It provides the ability to control the different aspects of traffic given real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 George Adaimi , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

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

The real-time detection of small objects in complex scenes, such as the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photography captured by drones, has dual challenges of detecting small targets (<32 pixels) and maintaining real-time efficiency on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Defan Chen , Yaohua Hu , Luchan Zhang