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Precise environmental perception is critical for the reliability of autonomous driving systems. While collaborative perception mitigates the limitations of single-agent perception through information sharing, it encounters a fundamental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Quanmin Wei , Penglin Dai , Wei Li , Bingyi Liu , Xiao Wu

In complex Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks, UAVs can establish dynamic and heterogeneous links with one another for various purposes, such as communication coverage, collective sensing, and task collaboration. These interactions give…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Cunlai Pu , Fangrui Wu , Zhe Wang , Xiangbo Shu

The recent progress in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) technology has significantly advanced UAV-based applications for military, civil, and commercial domains. Nevertheless, the challenges of establishing high-speed communication links,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Shumaila Javaid , Nasir Saeed , Zakria Qadir , Hamza Fahim , Bin He , Houbing Song , Muhammad Bilal

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are powerful Internet-of-Things components to provide sensing and communications in the air due to their advantages in mobility and flexibility. As aerial users, UAVs are envisioned to support various sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

In robotics, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that integrate diverse multimodal signals from multi-view inputs have emerged as an effective approach. However, most prior work adopts static fusion that processes all visual inputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Young-Chae Son , Jung-Woo Lee , Yoon-Ji Choi , Dae-Kwan Ko , Soo-Chul Lim

We propose a late-to-early recurrent feature fusion scheme for 3D object detection using temporal LiDAR point clouds. Our main motivation is fusing object-aware latent embeddings into the early stages of a 3D object detector. This feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Tong He , Pei Sun , Zhaoqi Leng , Chenxi Liu , Dragomir Anguelov , Mingxing Tan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are transforming infrastructure inspections in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management (AEC+FM) domain. By synthesizing insights from over 150 studies, this review paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amir Farzin Nikkhah , Dong Chen , Bradford Campbell , Somayeh Asadi , Arsalan Heydarian

Cooperative perception is critical for autonomous driving, overcoming the inherent limitations of a single vehicle, such as occlusions and constrained fields-of-view. However, current approaches sharing dense Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jiahao Wang , Zhongwei Jiang , Wenchao Sun , Jiaru Zhong , Haibao Yu , Yuner Zhang , Chenyang Lu , Chuang Zhang , Lei He , Shaobing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

The rapid advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) services and the evolution toward the sixth generation (6G) have positioned unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as critical enablers of low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs). This work…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Haijia Jin , Jun Wu , Weijie Yuan , Fan Liu , Yuanhao Cui

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jonas Westheider , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

The confluence of the advancement of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and the maturity of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication has enabled the capability of cooperative connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). Building on top of cooperative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zehao Wang , Yuping Wang , Zhuoyuan Wu , Hengbo Ma , Zhaowei Li , Hang Qiu , Jiachen Li

Reliable UAV object detection requires robustness to illumination changes, motion blur, and scene dynamics that suppress RGB cues. Thermal long-wave infrared (LWIR) sensing preserves contrast in low light, and event cameras retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Craig Iaboni , Pramod Abichandani

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a relatively new technology. Their application can often involve complex and unseen problems. For instance, they can work in a cooperative-based environment under the supervision of a ground station to…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been standing out due to the wide range of applications in which they can be used autonomously. However, they need intelligent systems capable of providing a greater understanding of what they perceive to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Matheus G. Mateus , Ricardo B. Grando , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr

Multi-sensor fusion is essential for an accurate and reliable autonomous driving system. Recent approaches are based on point-level fusion: augmenting the LiDAR point cloud with camera features. However, the camera-to-LiDAR projection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhijian Liu , Haotian Tang , Alexander Amini , Xinyu Yang , Huizi Mao , Daniela Rus , Song Han

Cooperative perception enabled by Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication holds significant promise for enhancing the perception capabilities of autonomous vehicles, allowing them to overcome occlusions and extend their field of view.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Hao Xiang , Zhaoliang Zheng , Xin Xia , Seth Z. Zhao , Letian Gao , Zewei Zhou , Tianhui Cai , Yun Zhang , Jiaqi Ma

Vehicle-to-Vehicle technologies have enabled autonomous vehicles to share information to see through occlusions, greatly enhancing perception performance. Nevertheless, existing works all focused on homogeneous traffic where vehicles are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Hao Xiang , Runsheng Xu , Jiaqi Ma

Federated learning (FL) is an effective paradigm for enhancing the learning capability of edge devices while preserving data privacy. In geographically dispersed FL systems, such as sensor networks in remote areas, unmanned aerial vehicles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shiqian Guo , Jianqing Liu , Beatriz Lorenzo

Infrastructure-based perception plays a crucial role in intelligent transportation systems, offering global situational awareness and enabling cooperative autonomy. However, existing camera-based detection models often underperform in such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yun Zhang , Zhaoliang Zheng , Johnson Liu , Zhiyu Huang , Zewei Zhou , Zonglin Meng , Tianhui Cai , Jiaqi Ma

Sensor fusion of camera, LiDAR, and 4-dimensional (4D) Radar has brought a significant performance improvement in autonomous driving. However, there still exist fundamental challenges: deeply coupled fusion methods assume continuous sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Dong-Hee Paek , Seung-Hyun Kong