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The recent and rapid growth in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) deployment for various computer vision tasks has paved the path for numerous opportunities to make them more effective and valuable. Object detection in aerial images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Aryaman Singh Samyal , Akshatha K R , Soham Hans , Karunakar A K , Satish Shenoy B

LiDAR-based 3D perception and localization on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are fundamentally limited by the narrow field of view (FoV) of compact LiDAR sensors and the payload constraints that preclude multi-sensor configurations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jianping Li , Xinhang Xu , Zhongyuan Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Lihua Xie

Object detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is of great importance in many aerial vision-based applications. Despite the great success of generic object detection methods, a significant performance drop is observed when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images has emerged as a focal area of research, which presents two significant challenges: i) objects are typically small and dense within vast images; ii) computational resource constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chen Li , Rui Zhao , Zeyu Wang , Huiying Xu , Xinzhong Zhu

The rapid proliferation of airborne platforms, including commercial aircraft, drones, and UAVs, has intensified the need for real-time, automated threat assessment systems. Current approaches depend heavily on manual monitoring, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Prosenjit Chatterjee , ANK Zaman

Recent years have seen tremendous advancements in the area of autonomous payload delivery via unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. However, most of these works involve delivering the payload at a predetermined location using its GPS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Aditya Vadduri , Anagh Benjwal , Abhishek Pai , Elkan Quadros , Aniruddh Kammar , Prajwal Uday

Depth completion and object detection are two crucial tasks often used for aerial 3D mapping, path planning, and collision avoidance of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Common solutions include using measurements from a LiDAR sensor;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Sara Hatami Gazani , Fardad Dadboud , Miodrag Bolic , Iraj Mantegh , Homayoun Najjaran

Designing robust machine learning systems remains an open problem, and there is a need for benchmark problems that cover both environmental changes and evaluation on a downstream task. In this work, we introduce AVOIDDS, a realistic object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Elysia Q. Smyers , Sydney M. Katz , Anthony L. Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

With the advancement of maritime unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and deep learning technologies, the application of UAV-based object detection has become increasingly significant in the fields of maritime industry and ocean engineering.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Chenjie Zhao , Ryan Wen Liu , Jingxiang Qu , Ruobin Gao

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing images poses significant challenges due to unstable image quality, small object sizes, complex backgrounds, and environmental occlusions. Small objects, in particular, occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xudong Wang , Yaxin Peng , Chaomin Shen

Existing 3D object detectors encounter extreme challenges in localizing unseen 3D objects and recognizing them as unseen, which is a crucial technology in autonomous driving in the wild. To address these challenges, we propose practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hyunjun Choi , Daeho Um , Hawook Jeong

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly critical role in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions such as border patrolling and criminal detection, thanks to their ability to access remote areas and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Niloufar Mehrabi , Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Jenna Hofseth , Abolfazl Razi , Long Cheng , Manveen Kaur , James Martin , Rahul Amin

To detect unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in real-time, computer vision and deep learning approaches are evolving research areas. Interest in this problem has grown due to concerns regarding the possible hazards and misuse of employing UAVs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Adnan Munir , Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui , Saeed Anwar

Accurate detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is critical for surveillance, security, and airspace monitoring. However, existing datasets remain limited in scale, resolution, and the ability to capture objects across extreme size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yu-Hsi Chen

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

Drones, or general UAVs, equipped with cameras have been fast deployed with a wide range of applications, including agriculture, aerial photography, and surveillance. Consequently, automatic understanding of visual data collected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Pengfei Zhu , Longyin Wen , Dawei Du , Xiao Bian , Heng Fan , Qinghua Hu , Haibin Ling

A vision-based drone-to-drone detection system is crucial for various applications like collision avoidance, countering hostile drones, and search-and-rescue operations. However, detecting drones presents unique challenges, including small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sairam VC Rebbapragada , Pranoy Panda , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

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

The main barrier to achieving fully autonomous flights lies in autonomous aircraft navigation. Managing non-cooperative traffic presents the most important challenge in this problem. The most efficient strategy for handling non-cooperative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Anastasios Arsenos , Vasileios Karampinis , Evangelos Petrongonas , Christos Skliros , Dimitrios Kollias , Stefanos Kollias , Athanasios Voulodimos

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly employed in diverse applications such as land surveying, material transport, and environmental monitoring. Following missions like data collection or inspection, UAVs must land safely at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Haiping Yang , Huaxing Liu , Wei Wu , Zuohui Chen , Ning Wu