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Event-based cameras are bio-inspired novel sensors that asynchronously record changes in illumination in the form of events, thus resulting in significant advantages over conventional cameras in terms of low power utilization, high dynamic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-18 Lakshmi Annamalai , Anirban Chakraborty , Chetan Singh Thakur

Decentralized deployment of drone swarms usually relies on inter-agent communication or visual markers that are mounted on the vehicles to simplify their mutual detection. This letter proposes a vision-based detection and tracking algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Fabian Schilling , Fabrizio Schiano , Dario Floreano

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that capture the per-pixel intensity changes asynchronously and produce event streams encoding the time, pixel position, and polarity (sign) of the intensity changes. Event cameras possess a myriad of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Xu Zheng , Yexin Liu , Yunfan Lu , Tongyan Hua , Tianbo Pan , Weiming Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Lin Wang

Drones or UAVs, equipped with different sensors, have been deployed in many places especially for urban traffic monitoring or last-mile delivery. It provides the ability to control the different aspects of traffic given real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 George Adaimi , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Detecting 3D objects in point clouds plays a crucial role in autonomous driving systems. Recently, advanced multi-modal methods incorporating camera information have achieved notable performance. For a safe and effective autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Hoonhee Cho , Jae-young Kang , Youngho Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Existing micro aerial vehicle (MAV) detection methods mainly rely on the target's appearance features in RGB images, whose diversity makes it difficult to achieve generalized MAV detection. We notice that different types of MAVs share the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yin Zhang , Zian Ning , Xiaoyu Zhang , Shiliang Guo , Peidong Liu , Shiyu Zhao

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. These cameras do not suffer from motion blur and have a very high dynamic range, which enables them to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Guillermo Gallego , Jon E. A. Lund , Elias Mueggler , Henri Rebecq , Tobi Delbruck , Davide Scaramuzza

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

The unmanned air-vehicle (UAV) or mini-drones equipped with sensors are becoming increasingly popular for various commercial, industrial, and public-safety applications. However, drones with uncontrolled deployment poses challenges for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Zeeshan Kaleem , Mubashir Husain Rehmani

Developing robust drone detection systems is often constrained by the limited availability of large-scale annotated training data and the high costs associated with real-world data collection. However, leveraging synthetic data generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Kai Franke , Tobias Koch

Vision-based object tracking is a critical component for achieving autonomous aerial navigation, particularly for obstacle avoidance. Neuromorphic Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) or event cameras, inspired by biological vision, offer a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sourav Sanyal , Amogh Joshi , Manish Nagaraj , Rohan Kumar Manna , Kaushik Roy

3D object detection is essential for autonomous systems, enabling precise localization and dimension estimation. While LiDAR and RGB cameras are widely used, their fixed frame rates create perception gaps in high-speed scenarios. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jae-Young Kang , Hoonhee Cho , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Event cameras or dynamic vision sensors (DVS) record asynchronous response to brightness changes instead of conventional intensity frames, and feature ultra-high sensitivity at low bandwidth. The new mechanism demonstrates great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Bo Zhang , Yuqi Han , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

We propose an approach to detect flying objects such as UAVs and aircrafts when they occupy a small portion of the field of view, possibly moving against complex backgrounds, and are filmed by a camera that itself moves. Solving such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

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

Event cameras have higher temporal resolution, and require less storage and bandwidth compared to traditional RGB cameras. However, due to relatively lagging performance of event-based approaches, event cameras have not yet replace…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Muhammad Ahmed Ullah Khan , Abdul Hannan Khan , Andreas Dengel

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones) are emerging as a promising technology for both environmental and infrastructure monitoring, with broad use in a plethora of applications. Many such applications require the use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Christos Kyrkou , George Plastiras , Stylianos Venieris , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Drone detection is a challenging object detection task where visibility conditions and quality of the images may be unfavorable, and detections might become difficult due to complex backgrounds, small visible objects, and hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ogulcan Eryuksel , Kamil Anil Ozfuttu , Fatih Cagatay Akyon , Kadir Sahin , Efe Buyukborekci , Devrim Cavusoglu , Sinan Altinuc

We present a method that leverages the complementarity of event cameras and standard cameras to track visual features with low-latency. Event cameras are novel sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes, called "events". They offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Daniel Gehrig , Henri Rebecq , Guillermo Gallego , Davide Scaramuzza

Addressing airport traffic jams is one of the most crucial and challenging tasks in the remote sensing field, especially for the busiest airports. Several solutions have been employed to address this problem depending on the airplane…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 W. T. Alshaibani , Mustafa Helvaci , Ibraheem Shayea , Hafizal Mohamad