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The increasing use of compact UAVs has created significant threats to public safety, while traditional drone detection systems are often bulky and costly. To address these challenges, we propose AV-DTEC, a lightweight self-supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhenyuan Xiao , Yizhuo Yang , Guili Xu , Xianglong Zeng , Shenghai Yuan

Point tracking aims to localize corresponding points across video frames, serving as a fundamental task for 4D reconstruction, robotics, and video editing. Existing methods commonly rely on shallow convolutional backbones such as ResNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Soowon Son , Honggyu An , Chaehyun Kim , Hyunah Ko , Jisu Nam , Dahyun Chung , Siyoon Jin , Jung Yi , Jaewon Min , Junhwa Hur , Seungryong Kim

Drone detection is pivotal in numerous security and counter-UAV applications. However, existing deep learning-based methods typically struggle to balance robust feature representation with computational efficiency. This challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jun Yang , Dong Wang , Hongxu Yin , Hongpeng Li , Jianxiong Yu

We propose a new method to estimate the 6-dof trajectory of a flying object such as a quadrotor UAV within a 3D airspace monitored using multiple fixed ground cameras. It is based on a new structure from motion formulation for the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Artem Rozantsev , Sudipta N. Sinha , Debadeepta Dey , Pascal Fua

Addressing the intricate challenge of modeling and re-rendering dynamic scenes, most recent approaches have sought to simplify these complexities using plane-based explicit representations, overcoming the slow training time issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ange Lou , Benjamin Planche , Zhongpai Gao , Yamin Li , Tianyu Luan , Hao Ding , Terrence Chen , Jack Noble , Ziyan Wu

Most existing trackers based on discriminative correlation filters (DCF) try to introduce predefined regularization term to improve the learning of target objects, e.g., by suppressing background learning or by restricting change rate of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Yiming Li , Changhong Fu , Fangqiang Ding , Ziyuan Huang , Geng Lu

This paper presents a novel reinforcement learning framework for trajectory tracking of unmanned aerial vehicles in cluttered environments using a dual-agent architecture. Traditional optimization methods for trajectory tracking face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shaswat Garg , Houman Masnavi , Baris Fidan , Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

Due to implicitly introduced periodic shifting of limited searching area, visual object tracking using correlation filters often has to confront undesired boundary effect. As boundary effect severely degrade the quality of object model, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Changhong Fu , Ziyuan Huang , Yiming Li , Ran Duan , Peng Lu

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

This paper presents PANTHER, a real-time perception-aware (PA) trajectory planner for multirotor-UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in dynamic environments. PANTHER plans trajectories that avoid dynamic obstacles while also keeping them in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jesus Tordesillas , Jonathan P. How

The demand for accurate and fast trajectory tracking for multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have grown recently due to advances in UAV avionics technology and application domains. In many applications, the multirotor UAV is required…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Abdulaziz Y. Alkayas , Mohamad Chehadeh , Abdulla Ayyad , Yahya Zweiri

In this paper, we present our proposed approach for active tracking to increase the autonomy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using event cameras, low-energy imaging sensors that offer significant advantages in speed and dynamic range.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ala Souissi , Hajer Fradi , Panagiotis Papadakis

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

UAV tracking can be widely applied in scenarios such as disaster rescue, environmental monitoring, and logistics transportation. However, existing UAV tracking methods predominantly emphasize speed and lack exploration in semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xinyu Zhou , Tongxin Pan , Lingyi Hong , Pinxue Guo , Haijing Guo , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Wenqiang Zhang

Achieving both efficiency and strong discriminative ability in lightweight visual tracking is a challenge, especially on mobile and edge devices with limited computational resources. Conventional lightweight trackers often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Juntao Liang , Jun Hou , Weijun Zhang , Yong Wang

Visual face tracking is one of the most important tasks in video surveillance systems. However, due to the variations in pose, scale, expression, and illumination it is considered to be a difficult task. Recent studies show that deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Safa Alver , Ugur Halici

Recognizing human actions in adverse lighting conditions presents significant challenges in computer vision, with wide-ranging applications in visual surveillance and nighttime driving. Existing methods tackle action recognition and dark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Anwaar Ulhaq

Tracking any point (TAP) is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision, requiring high precision and long-term motion reasoning. Recent attempts to combine RGB frames and event streams have shown promise, yet they typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiaxiong Liu , Zhen Tan , Jinpu Zhang , Yi Zhou , Hui Shen , Xieyuanli Chen , Dewen Hu

LiDAR has become one of the primary sensors in robotics and autonomous system for high-accuracy situational awareness. In recent years, multi-modal LiDAR systems emerged, and among them, LiDAR-as-a-camera sensors provide not only 3D point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ha Sier , Xianjia Yu , Iacopo Catalano , Jorge Pena Queralta , Zhuo Zou , Tomi Westerlund

Control performance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is directly affected by their ability to estimate their states accurately. With the increasing popularity of autonomous UAV solutions in real world applications, it is imperative to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mohamad Wahbah , Mohamad Chehadeh , Yahya Zweiri