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Unmanned aerial vehicle object detection (UAV-OD) has been widely used in various scenarios. However, most existing UAV-OD algorithms rely on manually designed components, which require extensive tuning. End-to-end models that do not depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Huaxiang Zhang , Kai Liu , Zhongxue Gan , Guo-Niu Zhu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant strides in natural images and satellite remote sensing images. However, understanding low-altitude drone scenarios remains a challenge. Existing datasets primarily focus on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yang Zhan , Yuan Yuan

The use of commercial Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) has surged in the past decade, offering societal benefits but also raising risks such as airspace violations and privacy concerns. Due to the increased security risks, the development of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Sándor Gazdag , Tom Möller , Anita Keszler , András L. Majdik

Due to the flexibility and low operational cost, dispatching unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect information from distributed sensors is expected to be a promising solution in Internet of Things (IoT), especially for time-critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Mengjie Yi , Xijun Wang , Juan Liu , Yan Zhang , Bo Bai

With the advancement in drone technology, in just a few years, drones will be assisting humans in every domain. But there are many challenges to be tackled, communication being the chief one. This paper aims at providing insights into the…

Multi-class vehicle detection from airborne imagery with orientation estimation is an important task in the near and remote vision domains with applications in traffic monitoring and disaster management. In the last decade, we have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Seyed Majid Azimi , Reza Bahmanyar , Corenin Henry , Franz Kurz

Vehicle detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) captured images has wide applications in aerial photography and remote sensing. There are many public benchmark datasets proposed for the vehicle detection and tracking in UAV images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Huiming Sun , Jiacheng Guo , Zibo Meng , Tianyun Zhang , Jianwu Fang , Yuewei Lin , Hongkai Yu

Drones equipped with cameras can significantly enhance human ability to perceive the world because of their remarkable maneuverability in 3D space. Ironically, object detection for drones has always been conducted in the 2D image space,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yue Hu , Shaoheng Fang , Weidi Xie , Siheng Chen

Raindrops adhering to the lens of UAVs can obstruct visibility of the background scene and degrade image quality. Despite recent progress in image deraining methods and datasets, there is a lack of focus on raindrop removal from UAV aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Wenhui Chang , Hongming Chen , Xin He , Xiang Chen , Liangduo Shen

Accurate navigation is of paramount importance to ensure flight safety and efficiency for autonomous drones. Recent research starts to use Deep Neural Networks to enhance drone navigation given their remarkable predictive capability for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Liekang Zeng , Haowei Chen , Daipeng Feng , Xiaoxi Zhang , Xu Chen

In this paper we present a large-scale visual object detection and tracking benchmark, named VisDrone2018, aiming at advancing visual understanding tasks on the drone platform. The images and video sequences in the benchmark were captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Pengfei Zhu , Longyin Wen , Xiao Bian , Haibin Ling , Qinghua Hu

In recent years, significant advances in computer vision have also propelled progress in remote sensing. Concurrently, the use of drones has expanded, with many organizations incorporating them into their operations. Most drones are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Panagiotis Koletsis , Vasilis Efthymiou , Maria Vakalopoulou , Nikos Komodakis , Anastasios Doulamis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

Modern autonomous vehicle perception systems are often constrained by occlusions, blind spots, and limited sensing range. While existing cooperative perception paradigms, such as Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Weijia Li , Haoen Xiang , Tianxu Wang , Shuaibing Wu , Qiming Xia , Cheng Wang , Chenglu Wen

Drones are attracting increasing attention in varieties of research fields because of their flexibility and are expected to be applied to a wide range of potential applications, among which the super-high-resolution video surveillance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Yoshitaka Takaku , Yohei Kaieda , Tao Yu , Kei Sakaguchi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as Drones, are one of 21st century most transformative technologies. Emerging first for military use, advancements in materials, electronics, and software have catapulted drones into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Ruchita Singh , Sandeep Kumar

Deep learning-based algorithms can provide state-of-the-art accuracy for remote sensing technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/drones, potentially enhancing their remote sensing capabilities for many emergency response and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

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

Ground robots play a crucial role in inspection, exploration, rescue, and other applications. In recent years, advancements in LiDAR technology have made sensors more accurate, lightweight, and cost-effective. Therefore, researchers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yanpeng Jia , Shiyi Wang , Shiliang Shao , Yue Wang , Fu Zhang , Ting Wang

As the previous state-of-the-art 4D radar-camera fusion-based 3D object detection method, LXL utilizes the predicted image depth distribution maps and radar 3D occupancy grids to assist the sampling-based image view transformation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Weiyi Xiong , Zean Zou , Qiuchi Zhao , Fengchun He , Bing Zhu

Small, fast, and lightweight drones present significant challenges for traditional RGB cameras due to their limitations in capturing fast-moving objects, especially under challenging lighting conditions. Event cameras offer an ideal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gabriele Magrini , Niccolò Marini , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Niccolò Biondi , Pietro Pala , Alberto Del Bimbo