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Nighttime UAV tracking faces significant challenges in real-world robotics operations. Low-light conditions not only limit visual perception capabilities, but cluttered backgrounds and frequent viewpoint changes also cause existing trackers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xuzhao Li , Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have great potential in urban traffic monitoring due to their rapid speed, cost-effectiveness, and extensive field-of-view, while being unconstrained by traffic congestion. However, their limited flight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Yumeng Bai , Yiheng Feng

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are transforming infrastructure inspections in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management (AEC+FM) domain. By synthesizing insights from over 150 studies, this review paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amir Farzin Nikkhah , Dong Chen , Bradford Campbell , Somayeh Asadi , Arsalan Heydarian

Multi-modal tracking gains attention due to its ability to be more accurate and robust in complex scenarios compared to traditional RGB-based tracking. Its key lies in how to fuse multi-modal data and reduce the gap between modalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jinyu Yang , Zhe Li , Feng Zheng , Aleš Leonardis , Jingkuan Song

Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) aims to achieve precise object detection and tracking through natural language instructions, representing a fundamental capability for intelligent robotic systems. However, current RMOT research…

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) into Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) offers synoptic visibility for traffic monitoring, yet scalable deployment is hindered by trajectory fragmentation, where vehicle identity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jianlin Ye , Christos Kyrkou , Panayiotis Kolios

Single object tracking aims to locate the target object in a video sequence according to the state specified by different modal references, including the initial bounding box (BBOX), natural language (NL), or both (NL+BBOX). Due to the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yinchao Ma , Yuyang Tang , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Jinpeng Zhang , Mengxue Kang

Single object tracking aims to localize target object with specific reference modalities (bounding box, natural language or both) in a sequence of specific video modalities (RGB, RGB+Depth, RGB+Thermal or RGB+Event.). Different reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yinchao Ma , Yuyang Tang , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Xu Zhou , Feng Wu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have emerged as versatile platforms, driving the demand for accurate modeling to support developmental testing. This paper proposes data-driven modeling software for UAV. Emphasizes the utilization of…

Detecting and tracking multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in thermal infrared video is inherently challenging due to low contrast, environmental noise, and small target sizes. This paper provides a straightforward approach to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yu-Hsi Chen

In this paper, a combat Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) is modeled in the simulation environment. The rotary wing UAV is successfully performed various tasks such as locking on the targets, tracking, and sharing the relevant data with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-28 A. Huzeyfe Demir , Berke Yavas , Mehmet Yazici , Dogukan Aksu , M. Ali Aydin

Micro unmanned aerial vehicles (mUAV) became very common in recent years. As a result of their widespread usage, when they are flown by hobbyists illegally, crucial risks are imposed and such mUAVs need to be sensed by security systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Fatih Gökçe

As a key research direction in the field of multi-object tracking (MOT), UAV-based multi-object tracking has significant application value in the analysis and understanding of urban intelligent transportation systems. However, in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wenguang Tao , Xiaotian Wang , Tian Yan , Jie Yan , Guodong Li , Kun Bai

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

We present UniTrack, a plug-and-play graph-theoretic loss function designed to significantly enhance multi-object tracking (MOT) performance by directly optimizing tracking-specific objectives through unified differentiable learning. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Bishoy Galoaa , Xiangyu Bai , Utsav Nandi , Sai Siddhartha Vivek Dhir Rangoju , Somaieh Amraee , Sarah Ostadabbas

The widespread application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has raised serious public safety and privacy concerns, making UAV perception crucial for anti-UAV tasks. However, existing UAV tracking datasets predominantly feature conspicuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Bin Xie , Congxuan Zhang , Fagan Wang , Peng Liu , Feng Lu , Zhen Chen , Weiming Hu

Smart traffic engineering and intelligent transportation services are in increasing demand from governmental authorities to optimize traffic performance and thus reduce energy costs, increase the drivers' safety and comfort, ensure traffic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Bilel Benjdira , Anis Koubaa , Ahmad Taher Azar , Zahid Khan , Adel Ammar , Wadii Boulila

In the realm of video object tracking, auxiliary modalities such as depth, thermal, or event data have emerged as valuable assets to complement the RGB trackers. In practice, most existing RGB trackers learn a single set of parameters to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zongwei Wu , Jilai Zheng , Xiangxuan Ren , Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Chao Ma , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

This article presents a three-dimensional nonlinear trajectory tracking control strategy for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of spatial constraints. As opposed to many existing control strategies, which do not consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Saurabh Kumar , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Abhinav Sinha

Air-to-air tracking of swarm UAVs presents significant challenges due to the complex nonlinear group motion and weak visual cues for small objects, which often cause detection failures, trajectory fragmentation, and identity switches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zhaochen Chu , Tao Song , Ren Jin , Shaoming He , Defu Lin , Siqing Cheng