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As drones become increasingly prevalent in human life, they also raises security concerns such as unauthorized access and control, as well as collisions and interference with manned aircraft. Therefore, ensuring the ability to accurately…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Zixiao Zhao , Qinghe Du , Xiang Yao , Lei Lu , Shijiao Zhang

As airborne vehicles are becoming more autonomous and ubiquitous, it has become vital to develop the capability to detect the objects in their surroundings. This paper attempts to address the problem of drones detection from other flying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Muhammad Waseem Ashraf , Waqas Sultani , Mubarak Shah

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

A drone monitoring system that integrates deep-learning-based detection and tracking modules is proposed in this work. The biggest challenge in adopting deep learning methods for drone detection is the limited amount of training drone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yueru Chen , Pranav Aggarwal , Jongmoo Choi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Drones operating in complex environments face a significant threat from thin obstacles, such as steel wires and kite strings at the submillimeter level, which are notoriously difficult for conventional sensors like RGB cameras, LiDAR, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zhengli Zhang , Xinyu Luo , Yucheng Sun , Wenhua Ding , Dongyue Huang , Xinlei Chen

In this work, we present and evaluate a method to perform real-time multiple drone detection and three-dimensional localization using state-of-the-art tiny-YOLOv4 object detection algorithm and stereo triangulation. Our computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Aryan Sharma , Nitik Jain , Mangal Kothari

Micro-drones can be integrated into various industrial applications but are constrained by their computing power and expert pilots, a secondary challenge. This study presents a computationally-efficient deep convolutional neural network…

Dynamically changing environments, unreliable state estimation, and operation under severe resource constraints are fundamental challenges that limit the deployment of small autonomous drones. We address these challenges in the context of…

Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles are traditionally used for military missions, warfare, and espionage. However, the usage of drones has significantly increased due to multiple industrial applications involving security and inspection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Purbaditya Bhattacharya , Patrick Nowak

Nano-size drones hold enormous potential to explore unknown and complex environments. Their small size makes them agile and safe for operation close to humans and allows them to navigate through narrow spaces. However, their tiny size and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hanna Müller , Vlad Niculescu , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

We present an energy-efficient anti-UAV system that integrates frame-based and event-driven object tracking to enable reliable detection of small and fast-moving drones. The system reconstructs binary event frames using run-length encoding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yuncheng Lu , Yucen Shi , Aobo Li , Zehao Li , Junying Li , Bo Wang , Tony Tae-Hyoung Kim

Detecting small objects, such as drones, over long distances presents a significant challenge with broad implications for security, surveillance, environmental monitoring, and autonomous systems. Traditional imaging-based methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junran Guo , Tonglin Mu , Keyuan Li , Jianing Li , Ziyang Luo , Ye Chen , Xiaodong Fan , Jinquan Huang , Minjie Liu , Jinbei Zhang , Ruoyang Qi , Naiting Gu , Shihai Sun

Now a days, UAVs such as drones are greatly used for various purposes like that of capturing and target detection from ariel imagery etc. Easy access of these small ariel vehicles to public can cause serious security threats. For instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Aleena Ajaz , Ayesha Salar , Tauseef Jamal , Asif Ullah Khan

Miniaturized autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining popularity due to their small size, enabling new tasks such as indoor navigation or people monitoring. Nonetheless, their size and simple electronics pose severe challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Matteo Risso , Francesco Daghero , Beatrice Alessandra Motetti , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Enrico Macii , Massimo Poncino , Alessio Burrello

In autonomous aerial navigation, real-time and energy-efficient obstacle avoidance remains a significant challenge, especially in dynamic and complex indoor environments. This work presents a novel integration of neuromorphic event cameras…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Amogh Joshi , Sourav Sanyal , Kaushik Roy

The forthcoming era of massive drone delivery deployment in urban environments raises a need to develop reliable control and monitoring systems. While active solutions, i.e., wireless sharing of a real-time location between air traffic…

Drones are not fully trusted yet. Their reliance on radios and cameras for navigation raises safety and privacy concerns. These systems can fail, causing accidents, or be misused for unauthorized recordings. Considering recent regulations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ricardo Ampudia Hernández , Talia Xu , Yanqiu Huang , Marco A. Zúñiga Zamalloa

Neuromorphic Computing (NC) and Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) in particular are often viewed as the next generation of Neural Networks (NNs). NC is a novel bio-inspired paradigm for energy efficient neural computation, often relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Andreas Ziegler , Karl Vetter , Thomas Gossard , Jonas Tebbe , Sebastian Otte , Andreas Zell

This paper studies high-speed online planning in dynamic environments. The problem requires finding time-optimal trajectories that conform to system dynamics, meeting computational constraints for real-time adaptation, and accounting for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Gilhyun Ryou , Lukas Lao Beyer , Sertac Karaman

Drone swarms coupled with data intelligence can be the future of wildfire fighting. However, drone swarm firefighting faces enormous challenges, such as the highly complex environmental conditions in wildfire scenes, the highly dynamic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Shijie Pan , Aoran Cheng , Yiqi Sun , Kai Kang , Cristobal Pais , Yulun Zhou , Zuo-Jun Max Shen