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The increasing deployment of small drones as tools of conflict and disruption has amplified their threat, highlighting the urgent need for effective anti-drone measures. However, the compact size of most drones presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanfang Liang , Jinming Hu , Xiaohuan Ling , Bing Wang

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

Low-light environments have posed a formidable challenge for robust unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking even with state-of-the-art (SOTA) trackers since the potential image features are hard to extract under adverse light conditions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Changhong Fu , Haolin Dong , Junjie Ye , Guangze Zheng , Sihang Li , Jilin Zhao

Prior correlation filter (CF)-based tracking methods for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have virtually focused on tracking in the daytime. However, when the night falls, the trackers will encounter more harsh scenes, which can easily lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Bowen Li , Changhong Fu , Fangqiang Ding , Junjie Ye , Fuling Lin

This paper offers openly available microscopic vehicle trajectory (MVT) datasets collected using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in heterogeneous, area-based urban traffic conditions. Traditional roadside video collection often fails in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yawar Ali , K. Ramachandra Rao , Ashish Bhaskar , Niladri Chatterjee

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

An unsupervised, lightweight and high-performance single object tracker, called UHP-SOT, was proposed by Zhou et al. recently. As an extension, we present an enhanced version and name it UHP-SOT++ in this work. Built upon the foundation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Zhiruo Zhou , Hongyu Fu , Suya You , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Internet of Things (IoT) involves sensors for monitoring and wireless networks for efficient communication. However, resource-constrained IoT devices and limitations in existing wireless technologies hinder its full potential. Integrating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Poorvi Joshi , Alakesh Kalita , Mohan Gurusamy

Assessing collision risk is a critical challenge to effective traffic safety management. The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to address this issue has shown much promise, given their wide visual field and movement flexibility.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Shuya Zong , Sikai Chen , Majed Alinizzi , Yujie Li , Samuel Labi

Accurate pose estimation is fundamental for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, where Visual-Inertial SLAM (VI-SLAM) provides a cost-effective solution for localization and mapping. However, existing VI-SLAM methods mainly rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yiyang Wu , Xiaohu Zhang , Yanjin Du , Tongsu Zhang , Chujun Li , Siyang Chen , Guoyi Zhang , Xiangpeng Xu

Multi-UAV collaborative 3D object detection can perceive and comprehend complex environments by integrating complementary information, with applications encompassing traffic monitoring, delivery services and agricultural management.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Pengju Tian , Peirui Cheng , Yuchao Wang , Zhechao Wang , Zhirui Wang , Menglong Yan , Xue Yang , Xian Sun

Low light conditions significantly degrade Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) performance in critical applications. Existing Low-light Image Enhancement (LIE) methods struggle with the unique challenges of aerial imagery, including Ultra-High…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei Lu , Lingyu Zhu , Si-Bao Chen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) suffer from sensor drifts in GPS denied environments, which can lead to potentially dangerous situations. To avoid intolerable sensor drifts in the presence of GPS spoofing attacks, we propose a safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Wenbin Wan , Hunmin Kim , Naira Hovakimyan , Lui Sha , Petros G. Voulgaris

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

Vehicle detection and recognition in drone images is a complex problem that has been used for different safety purposes. The main challenge of these images is captured at oblique angles and poses several challenges like non-uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Hamam Mokayed , Amirhossein Nayebiastaneh , Kanjar De , Stergios Sozos , Olle Hagner , Bjorn Backe

With substantial recent developments in aviation technologies, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly integrated in commercial and military operations internationally. Research into the applications of aircraft data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Victoria Bell1 , Divish Rengasamy , Benjamin Rothwell , Grazziela P Figueredo

Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology have made UAVs an attractive possibility as an airborne calibration platform for astronomical facilities. This is especially true for arrays of telescopes spread over a large area…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Anthony M. Brown

A tracking controller for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is developed to track moving targets undergoing unknown translational and rotational motions. The main challenges are to control both the relative positions and angles between the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hsin-Ai Hung , Hao-Huan Hsu , Teng-Hu Cheng

While recent Transformer-based approaches have shown impressive performances on event-based object detection tasks, their high computational costs still diminish the low power consumption advantage of event cameras. Image-based works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yansong Peng , Hebei Li , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun , Feng Wu