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With the increasing use of drones across various industries, the navigation and tracking of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in challenging environments (such as GNSS-denied environments) have become critical issues. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Iacopo Catalano , Ha Sier , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund , Jorge Pena Queralta

Correlation filter (CF)-based methods have demonstrated exceptional performance in visual object tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, but suffer from the undesirable boundary effect. To solve this issue, spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Changhong Fu , Xiaoxiao Yang , Fan Li , Juntao Xu , Changjing Liu , Peng Lu

Effective path planning is fundamental to the coordination of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) systems, particularly in applications such as surveillance, navigation, and emergency response. Combining…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Fangzhou Zhao , Yao Sun , Jianglin Lan , Lan Zhang , Xuesong Liu , Muhammad Ali Imran

We propose a new context-aware correlation filter based tracking framework to achieve both high computational speed and state-of-the-art performance among real-time trackers. The major contribution to the high computational speed lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jongwon Choi , Hyung Jin Chang , Tobias Fischer , Sangdoo Yun , Kyuewang Lee , Jiyeoup Jeong , Yiannis Demiris , Jin Young Choi

In this work we propose a holistic framework for autonomous aerial inspection tasks, using semantically-aware, yet, computationally efficient planning and mapping algorithms. The system leverages state-of-the-art receding horizon…

Unmanned aerial vehicles combined with computer vision systems, such as convolutional neural networks, offer a flexible and affordable solution for terrain monitoring, mapping, and detection tasks. However, a key challenge remains the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Hermann Blum , Silvan Rohrbach , Marija Popovic , Luca Bartolomei , Roland Siegwart

Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are commonly used in search and rescue scenarios to gather information in the search area. The automatic identification of the person searched for in aerial footage could increase the autonomy of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yannik Blei , Michael Krawez , Nisarga Nilavadi , Tanja Katharina Kaiser , Wolfram Burgard

This paper investigates the problem of traffic surveillance using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and proposes a domain-knowledge-aided airborne ground moving targets tracking algorithm. To improve the accuracy of multiple targets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Jianduo Chai , Shaoming He , Hyo-Sang Shin

Visual localization remains challenging in dynamic environments where fluctuating lighting, adverse weather, and moving objects disrupt appearance cues. Despite advances in feature representation, current absolute pose regression methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Zhongtao Tian , Wenhao Huang , Zhidong Chen , Xiao Wei Sun

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) offers lots of applications in both commerce and recreation. With this, monitoring the operation status of UAVs is crucially important. In this work, we consider the task of tracking UAVs, providing rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Nan Jiang , Kuiran Wang , Xiaoke Peng , Xuehui Yu , Qiang Wang , Junliang Xing , Guorong Li , Jian Zhao , Guodong Guo , Zhenjun Han

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with multiple complementary sensors have tremendous potential for fast autonomous or remote-controlled semantic scene analysis, e.g., for disaster examination. Here, we propose a UAV system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Simon Bultmann , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

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

Semantic segmentation of aerial imagery is an important tool for mapping and earth observation. However, supervised deep learning models for segmentation rely on large amounts of high-quality labelled data, which is labour-intensive and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Julius Rückin , Liren Jin , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

The demand for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based image acquisition and analysis has surged, with UAVs increasingly utilized for semantic segmentation tasks. To meet the real-time analysis requirements of UAV remote sensing missions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Anqi Lu , Yun Cheng , Youbing Hu , Zhiqiang Cao , Jie Liu , Zhijun Li

The advancement towards 6G technology leverages improvements in aerial-terrestrial networking, where one of the critical challenges is the efficient allocation of transmit power. Although existing studies have shown commendable performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hamidreza Mazandarani , Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb

This paper addresses the problem of multi-object tracking in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) footage. It plays a critical role in various UAV applications, including traffic monitoring systems and real-time suspect tracking by the police.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 InPyo Song , Jangwon Lee

Recently, template-based trackers have become the leading tracking algorithms with promising performance in terms of efficiency and accuracy. However, the correlation operation between query feature and the given template only exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Pengfei Zhu , Hongtao Yu , Kaihua Zhang , Yu Wang , Shuai Zhao , Lei Wang , Tianzhu Zhang , Qinghua Hu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is critical for applications like surveillance, search-and-rescue, and autonomous navigation. However, the high-speed movement of UAVs and targets introduces unique challenges, including real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 You Wu , Xucheng Wang , Dan Zeng , Hengzhou Ye , Xiaolan Xie , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) downlink transmission facilitates critical time-sensitive visual applications but is fundamentally constrained by bandwidth scarcity and dynamic channel impairments. The rapid fluctuation of the air-to-ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jijia Tian , Junting Chen , Pooi-Yuen Kam

Target tracking is an important issue of social security. In order to track a target, traditionally a large amount of surveillance video data need to be uploaded into the cloud for processing and analysis, which put stremendous bandwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-05 Yajun Liu , Congxu Zhu , Xiaoheng Deng , Peiyuan Guan , Zhiwen Wan , Jie Luo , Enlu Liu , Honggang Zhang