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Leveraging multi-modal fusion, especially between camera and LiDAR, has become essential for building accurate and robust 3D object detection systems for autonomous vehicles. Until recently, point decorating approaches, in which point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Philip Jacobson , Yiyang Zhou , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ming C. Wu

Bird's eye view (BEV) representation has emerged as a dominant solution for describing 3D space in autonomous driving scenarios. However, objects in the BEV representation typically exhibit small sizes, and the associated point cloud…

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Developing reliable UAV navigation systems requires robust air-to-air object detectors capable of distinguishing between objects seen during training and previously unseen objects. While many methods address closed-set detection and achieve…

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Small oriented objects that represent tiny pixel-area in large-scale aerial images are difficult to detect due to their size and orientation. Existing oriented aerial detectors have shown promising results but are mainly focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Chandler Timm C. Doloriel , Rhandley D. Cajote

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) object detection plays a vital role in applications such as environmental monitoring and urban security. To improve robustness, recent studies have explored multimodal detection by fusing visible (RGB) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Liu Zongzhen , Luo Hui , Wang Zhixing , Wei Yuxing , Zuo Haorui , Zhang Jianlin

Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) are becoming ubiquitous across multiple industries and application domains. Lightweight MAVs with only an onboard flight controller and a minimal sensor suite (e.g., IMU, vision, and vertical ranging sensors)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Li Qingqing , Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

This paper focuses on the construction of stronger local features and the effective fusion of image and LiDAR data. We adopt different modalities of LiDAR data to generate richer features and present an adaptive and azimuth-aware network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yonglin Tian , Kunfeng Wang , Yuang Wang , Yulin Tian , Zilei Wang , Fei-Yue Wang

Single Object Tracking in LiDAR point cloud is one of the most essential parts of environmental perception, in which small objects are inevitable in real-world scenarios and will bring a significant barrier to the accurate location.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Shengjing Tian , Yinan Han , Xiuping Liu , Xiantong Zhao

Integrating LiDAR and Camera information into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) has become an essential topic for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Existing methods mostly adopt an independent dual-branch framework to generate LiDAR and camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hongxiang Cai , Zeyuan Zhang , Zhenyu Zhou , Ziyin Li , Wenbo Ding , Jiuhua Zhao

Although convolutional neural networks have made outstanding achievements in visible light target detection, there are still many challenges in infrared small object detection because of the low signal-to-noise ratio, incomplete object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhonglin Chen , Anyu Geng , Jianan Jiang , Jiwu Lu , Di Wu

Reliable UAV object detection requires robustness to illumination changes, motion blur, and scene dynamics that suppress RGB cues. Thermal long-wave infrared (LWIR) sensing preserves contrast in low light, and event cameras retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Craig Iaboni , Pramod Abichandani

Small object detection in aerial imagery presents significant challenges in computer vision due to the minimal data inherent in small-sized objects and their propensity to be obscured by larger objects and background noise. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Tushar Verma , Jyotsna Singh , Yash Bhartari , Rishi Jarwal , Suraj Singh , Shubhkarman Singh

Object detection is a basic and important task in the field of aerial image processing and has gained much attention in computer vision. However, previous aerial image object detection approaches have insufficient use of scene semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Zhiming Liu , Xuefei Zhang , Chongyang Liu , Hao Wang , Chao Sun , Bin Li , Weifeng Sun , Pu Huang , Qingjun Li , Yu Liu , Haipeng Kuang , Jihong Xiu

Small object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery is a persistent challenge, hindered by low resolution and background clutter. While fusing RGB and infrared (IR) data offers a promising solution, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shuyu Cao , Minxin Chen , Yucheng Song , Zhaozhong Chen , Xinyou Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions due to their ability to monitor vast maritime areas. However, small objects often remain difficult to detect from high altitudes due to low object-to-background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sakib Ahmed , Oscar Pizarro

Autonomous navigation in unknown environments with obstacles remains challenging for micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) due to their limited onboard computing and sensing resources. Although various collision avoidance methods have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ruoyu Wang , Zixuan Guo , Yizhou Chen , Xinyi Wang , Ben M. Chen

Object detection in aerial imagery is a critical task in applications such as UAV reconnaissance. Although existing methods have extensively explored feature interaction between different modalities, they commonly rely on simple fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zidong Gu , Shoufu Tian

Object detection in remote sensing imagery plays a vital role in various Earth observation applications. However, unlike object detection in natural scene images, this task is particularly challenging due to the abundance of small, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Minh-Duc Vu , Zuheng Ming , Fangchen Feng , Bissmella Bahaduri , Anissa Mokraoui

Integrating LiDAR and camera information into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation has emerged as a crucial aspect of 3D object detection in autonomous driving. However, existing methods are susceptible to the inaccurate calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ziying Song , Lei Yang , Shaoqing Xu , Lin Liu , Dongyang Xu , Caiyan Jia , Feiyang Jia , Li Wang

Map construction task plays a vital role in providing precise and comprehensive static environmental information essential for autonomous driving systems. Primary sensors include cameras and LiDAR, with configurations varying between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Xiaoshuai Hao , Yunfeng Diao , Mengchuan Wei , Yifan Yang , Peng Hao , Rong Yin , Hui Zhang , Weiming Li , Shu Zhao , Yu Liu