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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) spectral remote sensing technology is widely used in water quality monitoring. However, in dynamic environments, varying illumination conditions, such as shadows and specular reflection (sun glint), can cause…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yuanshuang Fu , Qianyao Wang , Qihao Wang , Bonan Zhang , Jiaxin Zhao , Yiming Cao , Zhijun Li

While Vision Transformers (ViT) have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse tasks, their computational demands are substantial, scaling quadratically with the number of processed tokens. Compact attention representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Oded Schlesinger , Amirhossein Farzam , J. Matias Di Martino , Guillermo Sapiro

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant traction across various fields, path planning in 3D environments remains a critical challenge, particularly under size, weight, and power (SWAP) constraints. Traditional modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yufei Jiang , Yuanzhu Zhan , Harsh Vardhan Gupta , Chinmay Borde , Junyi Geng

Current visual navigation systems often treat the environment as static, lacking the ability to adaptively interact with obstacles. This limitation leads to navigation failure when encountering unavoidable obstructions. In response, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Philipp Schoch , Fan Yang , Yuntao Ma , Stefan Leutenegger , Marco Hutter , Quentin Leboutet

Small Multi-Object Tracking (SMOT) is particularly challenging when targets occupy only a few dozen pixels, rendering detection and appearance-based association unreliable. Building on the success of the MVA2023 SOD4SB challenge, this paper…

Modern multi-object tracking (MOT) systems usually model the trajectories by associating per-frame detections. However, when camera motion, fast motion, and occlusion challenges occur, it is difficult to ensure long-range tracking or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Shoudong Han , Piao Huang , Hongwei Wang , En Yu , Donghaisheng Liu , Xiaofeng Pan , Jun Zhao

Efficient trajectory generation in complex dynamic environments remains an open problem in the unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The perception of the USV is usually interfered with by the swing of the hull and the ambient weather, making it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tao Huang , Zhe Chen , Wang Gao , Zhenfeng Xue , Yong Liu

Low speed does not always guarantee safety in off-road driving. For instance, crossing a ditch may be risky at a low speed due to the risk of getting stuck, yet safe at a higher speed with a controlled, accelerated jump. Achieving such…

In order to improve usability and safety, modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are equipped with sensors to monitor the environment, such as laser-scanners and cameras. One important aspect in this monitoring process is to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Boitumelo Ruf , Sebastian Monka , Matthias Kollmann , Michael Grinberg

The Dynamic Targeting (DT) mission concept is an approach to satellite observation in which a lookahead sensor gathers information about the upcoming environment and uses this information to intelligently plan observations. Previous work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Akseli Kangaslahti , Itai Zilberstein , Alberto Candela , Steve Chien

This paper presents Deep-PANTHER, a learning-based perception-aware trajectory planner for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments. Given the current state of the UAV, and the predicted trajectory and size of the obstacle,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Jesus Tordesillas , Jonathan P. How

For intelligent quadcopter UAVs, a robust and reliable autonomous planning system is crucial. Most current trajectory planning methods for UAVs are suitable for static environments but struggle to handle dynamic obstacles, which can pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Yinliang Chen , Zihang Wei , Fan Yang , Haoran Shen

Motion planning is a critical component of intelligent unmanned systems, enabling their complex autonomous operations. However, current planning algorithms still face limitations in planning efficiency due to inflexible strategies and weak…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yinghao Zhao , Chenguang Dai , Liang Lyu , Zhenchao Zhang , Chaozhen Lan , Hong Xie

We present a unified probabilistic framework for simultaneous trajectory estimation and planning (STEAP). Estimation and planning problems are usually considered separately, however, within our framework we show that solving them…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Mustafa Mukadam , Jing Dong , Frank Dellaert , Byron Boots

Robotic manipulation is often specified through language instructions or task identifiers, yet cluttered environments with similar objects are better handled by spatially indicating what to move and where to place it. Addressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yifan Li , Xinyu Zhou , Yunhao Ge , Yu Kong

In the last twenty years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have garnered growing interest due to their expanding applications in both military and civilian domains. Detecting non-cooperative aerial vehicles with efficiency and estimating…

Visual Active Tracking (VAT) aims to control cameras to follow a target in 3D space, which is critical for applications like drone navigation and security surveillance. However, it faces two key bottlenecks in real-world deployment:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Haowei Sun , Kai Zhou , Hao Gao , Shiteng Zhang , Jinwu Hu , Xutao Wen , Qixiang Ye , Mingkui Tan

Dense point tracking is a challenging task requiring the continuous tracking of every point in the initial frame throughout a substantial portion of a video, even in the presence of occlusions. Traditional methods use optical flow models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Qiaole Dong , Yanwei Fu

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a vital resource for investigative journalists doing geolocation verification. However, existing tools to query OSM data such as Overpass Turbo require familiarity with complex query languages, creating barriers for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Lynn Khellaf , Ipek Baris Schlicht , Tilman Mirass , Julia Bayer , Tilman Wagner , Ruben Bouwmeester

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with high-resolution sensors enable extensive data collection from previously inaccessible areas at a remarkable spatio-temporal scale, promising to revolutionize fields such as precision agriculture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Harnaik Dhami