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Reliable deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered unknown environments requires accurate sensors for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied localization and obstacle avoidance. Such a requirement limits the usage…

As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become more accessible with a growing range of applications, the potential risk of UAV disruption increases. Recent development in deep learning allows vision-based counter-UAV systems to detect and track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Daniel Organisciak , Matthew Poyser , Aishah Alsehaim , Shanfeng Hu , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

Occlusion between objects is one of the overlooked challenges for object detection in UAV images. Due to the variable altitude and angle of UAVs, occlusion in UAV images happens more frequently than that in natural scenes. Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xuexue Li , Wenhui Diao , Yongqiang Mao , Peng Gao , Xiuhua Mao , Xinming Li , Xian Sun

Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery is challenging, mainly due to scale variation, structural detail degradation, and limited computational resources. In high-altitude scenarios, fine-grained features are further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xuecheng Bai , Yuxiang Wang , Chuanzhi Xu , Boyu Hu , Kang Han , Ruijie Pan , Xiaowei Niu , Xiaotian Guan , Liqiang Fu , Pengfei Ye

The use of drones for aerial cinematography has revolutionized several applications and industries that require live and dynamic camera viewpoints such as entertainment, sports, and security. However, safely controlling a drone while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Rogerio Bonatti , Cherie Ho , Wenshan Wang , Sanjiban Choudhury , Sebastian Scherer

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

Accurate visual localization from aerial views is a fundamental problem with applications in mapping, large-area inspection, and search-and-rescue operations. In many scenarios, these systems require high-precision localization while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Oussema Dhaouadi , Riccardo Marin , Johannes Meier , Jacques Kaiser , Daniel Cremers

In real-world applications where confidence is key, like autonomous driving, the accurate detection and appropriate handling of classes differing from those used during training are crucial. Despite the proposal of various unknown object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Hejer Ammar , Nikita Kiselov , Guillaume Lapouge , Romaric Audigier

QuadPlanes combine the range efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft with the maneuverability of multi-rotor platforms for long-range autonomous missions. In GPS-denied or cluttered urban environments, perception-based landing is vital for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Ashik E Rasul , Humaira Tasnim , Ji Yu Kim , Young Hyun Lim , Scott Schmitz , Bruce W. Jo , Hyung-Jin Yoon

To address the challenges of localization drift and perception-planning coupling in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in open-top scenarios (e.g., collapsed buildings, roofless mazes), this paper proposes EAROL, a novel framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xinkai Liang , Yigu Ge , Yangxi Shi , Haoyu Yang , Xu Cao , Hao Fang

This paper introduces a novel approach to video object detection detection and tracking on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). By incorporating metadata, the proposed approach creates a memory map of object locations in actual world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Benjamin Kiefer , Yitong Quan , Andreas Zell

The integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into shared airspace for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations presents significant challenges but holds transformative potential for sectors like transportation, construction,…

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect known and unknown objects in the open world by leveraging text prompts. Benefiting from the emergence of large-scale vision--language pre-trained models, OVOD has demonstrated strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jiaming Liang , Yifeng Zhan , Chunlin Liu , Weihua Zheng , Bingye Peng , Qiwei Liang , Boyang Cai , Xiaochun Mai , Qiang Nie

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

Drones, or general UAVs, equipped with a single camera have been widely deployed to a broad range of applications, such as aerial photography, fast goods delivery and most importantly, surveillance. Despite the great progress achieved in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Haotian Zhang , Gaoang Wang , Zhichao Lei , Jenq-Neng Hwang

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

Underwater object detection (UOD), aiming to identify and localise the objects in underwater images or videos, presents significant challenges due to the optical distortion, water turbidity, and changing illumination in underwater scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Long Chen , Yuzhi Huang , Junyu Dong , Qi Xu , Sam Kwong , Huimin Lu , Huchuan Lu , Chongyi Li

Collaborative trajectory prediction can comprehensively forecast the future motion of objects through multi-view complementary information. However, it encounters two main challenges in multi-drone collaboration settings. The expansive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Zhechao Wang , Peirui Cheng , Mingxin Chen , Pengju Tian , Zhirui Wang , Xinming Li , Xue Yang , Xian Sun

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

In the past decade, object detection has achieved significant progress in natural images but not in aerial images, due to the massive variations in the scale and orientation of objects caused by the bird's-eye view of aerial images. More…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jian Ding , Nan Xue , Gui-Song Xia , Xiang Bai , Wen Yang , Micheal Ying Yang , Serge Belongie , Jiebo Luo , Mihai Datcu , Marcello Pelillo , Liangpei Zhang