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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection and aerial object recognition are critical for modern surveillance and security, prompting a need for robust systems that overcome limitations of single-modality approaches. This research addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Mauro Larrat , Claudomiro Sales

The extensive application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and related domains has created an urgent need for accurate and efficient multi-object tracking (MOT) technologies, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Juanqin Liu , Leonardo Plotegher , Eloy Roura , Shaoming He

To meet the requirements for managing unauthorized UAVs in the low-altitude economy, a multi-modal UAV trajectory prediction method based on the fusion of LiDAR and millimeter-wave radar information is proposed. A deep fusion network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuan Gao , Xinyu Guo , Wenjing Xie , Zifan Wang , Hongwen Yu , Gongyang Li , Shugong Xu

As an important area in computer vision, object tracking has formed two separate communities that respectively study Single Object Tracking (SOT) and Multiple Object Tracking (MOT). However, current methods in one tracking scenario are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Fan Ma , Mike Zheng Shou , Linchao Zhu , Haoqi Fan , Yilei Xu , Yi Yang , Zhicheng Yan

This paper investigates the coordinated trajectory tracking problem of multiple vertical takeooff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The case of unidirectional information flow is considered and the objective is to drive…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Yao Zou , Ziyang Meng

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to track multiple objects while maintaining consistent identities across frames of a given video. In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) recorded videos, frequent viewpoint changes and complex UAV-ground relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jianbo Ma , Hui Luo , Qi Chen , Yuankai Qi , Yumei Sun , Amin Beheshti , Jianlin Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Object tracking has been broadly applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tasks in recent years. However, existing algorithms still face difficulties such as partial occlusion, clutter background, and other challenging visual factors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yujie He , Changhong Fu , Fuling Lin , Yiming Li , Peng Lu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been widely used in various fields, and their invasion of security and privacy has aroused social concern. Several detection and tracking systems for UAVs have been introduced in recent years, but most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jie Zhao , Jingshu Zhang , Dongdong Li , Dong Wang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in many areas, including transportation, surveillance, and military. However, their potential for safety and privacy violations is an increasing issue and highly limits their broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Xue-Feng Zhu , Tianyang Xu , Jian Zhao , Jia-Wei Liu , Kai Wang , Gang Wang , Jianan Li , Qiang Wang , Lei Jin , Zheng Zhu , Junliang Xing , Xiao-Jun Wu

This paper considers a collaborative tracking control problem using a group of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with constant and non-identical speeds. The dynamics of fixed-wing UAVs are modelled by unicycle-type equations with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zhiyong Sun , Hector Garcia de Marina , Brian D. O. Anderson , Changbin Yu

Multi-modal object tracking has attracted considerable attention by integrating multiple complementary inputs (e.g., thermal, depth, and event data) to achieve outstanding performance. Although current general-purpose multi-modal trackers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Qihua Liang , Liang Chen , Yaozong Zheng , Jian Nong , Zhiyi Mo , Bineng Zhong

In the realm of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking, Siamese-based approaches have gained traction due to their optimal balance between efficiency and precision. However, UAV scenarios often present challenges such as insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xiaoying Yuan , Tingfa Xu , Xincong Liu , Ying Wang , Haolin Qin , Yuqiang Fang , Jianan Li

A tracking controller for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is developed to track moving targets undergoing unknown translational and rotational motions. The main challenges are to control both the relative positions and angles between the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hsin-Ai Hung , Hao-Huan Hsu , Teng-Hu Cheng

Infrared unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images captured using thermal detectors are often affected by temperature dependent low-frequency nonuniformity, which significantly reduces the contrast of the images. Detecting UAV targets under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Houzhang Fang , Xiaolin Wang , Zengyang Li , Lu Wang , Qingshan Li , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can pose a major risk for aviation safety, due to both negligent and malicious use. For this reason, the automated detection and tracking of UAV is a fundamental task in aerial security systems. Common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Matt Poyser , Daniel Organisciak , Chris G. Willcocks , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

Multi-object tracking (MOT) from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents unique challenges due to unpredictable object motion, frequent occlusions, and limited appearance cues inherent to aerial viewpoints. These issues are further…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Zenghuang Fu , Xiaofeng Han , Mingda Jia , Jin ming Yang , Qi Zeng , Muyang Zahng , Changwei Wang , Weiliang Meng , Xiaopeng Zhang

Most existing multimodal trackers adopt uniform fusion strategies, overlooking the inherent differences between modalities. Moreover, they propagate temporal information through mixed tokens, leading to entangled and less discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Shilei Wang , Pujian Lai , Dong Gao , Jifeng Ning , Gong Cheng

Visual object tracking has gained promising progress in past decades. Most of the existing approaches focus on learning target representation in well-conditioned daytime data, while for the unconstrained real-world scenarios with adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Siyuan Yao , Rui Zhu , Ziqi Wang , Wenqi Ren , Yanyang Yan , Xiaochun Cao

Visual object tracking (VOT) plays a pivotal role in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. Addressing the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency, especially under challenging conditions like unpredictable occlusion, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yang Zhou , Derui Ding , Ran Sun , Ying Sun , Haohua Zhang

This paper systematically studies the cooperative area coverage and target tracking problem of multiple-unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs). The problem is solved by decomposing into three sub-problems: information fusion, task…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Mengge Zhang , Jie Li , Xiangke Wang