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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly critical role in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions such as border patrolling and criminal detection, thanks to their ability to access remote areas and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Niloufar Mehrabi , Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Jenna Hofseth , Abolfazl Razi , Long Cheng , Manveen Kaur , James Martin , Rahul Amin

Multi-modality image fusion (MMIF) in adverse weather aims to address the loss of visual information caused by weather-related degradations, providing clearer scene representations. Although less studies have attempted to incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xilai Li , Huichun Liu , Xiaosong Li , Tao Ye , Zhenyu Kuang , Huafeng Li

Boundary information plays a significant role in 2D image segmentation, while usually being ignored in 3D point cloud segmentation where ambiguous features might be generated in feature extraction, leading to misclassification in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Jingyu Gong , Jiachen Xu , Xin Tan , Jie Zhou , Yanyun Qu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

With the increasing demand for search and rescue, it is highly demanded to detect objects of interest in large-scale images captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which is quite challenging due to extremely small scales of objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mingbo Hong , Shuiwang Li , Yuchao Yang , Feiyu Zhu , Qijun Zhao , Li Lu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially drones, equipped with vision techniques have become very popular in recent years, with their extensive use in wide range of applications. Many of these applications require use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Subrahmanyam Vaddi , Chandan Kumar , Ali Jannesari

The research on recognizing the most discriminative regions provides referential information for weakly supervised object localization with only image-level annotations. However, the most discriminative regions usually conceal the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Yukun Zhou , Zailiang Chen , Hailan Shen , Qing Liu , Rongchang Zhao , Yixiong Liang

LiDAR and camera fusion techniques are promising for achieving 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Most multi-modal 3D object detection frameworks integrate semantic knowledge from 2D images into 3D LiDAR point clouds to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Ziying Song , Jin Fang , Sifen Wang , Zhi-Xin Yang

With the advancement of collaborative perception, the role of aerial-ground collaborative perception, a crucial component, is becoming increasingly important. The demand for collaborative perception across different perspectives to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yuchao Wang , Peirui Cheng , Pengju Tian , Ziyang Yuan , Liangjin Zhao , Jing Tian , Wensheng Wang , Zhirui Wang , Xian Sun

Tracking and measuring targets using a variety of sensors mounted on UAVs is an effective means to quickly and accurately locate the target. This paper proposes a fusion localization method based on ridge estimation, combining the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Huayu Huang , Chen Chen , Banglei Guan , Ze Tan , Yang Shang , Zhang Li , Qifeng Yu

In this study, we address the problem of in-flight object catching using a quadruped robot with a basket. Our objective is to accurately predict the impact point, defined as the object's landing position. This task poses two key challenges:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ngoc Huy Nguyen , Kazuki Shibata , Takamitsu Matsubara

The efficacy of UAV swarm cooperative perception fundamentally depends on three-dimensional (3D) formation geometry, which governs target observability and sensor complementarity. In the literature, the exploitation of formation geometry…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Kai Xiong , Xingyu Wu , Anna Duan , Supeng Leng , Jianhua He

In most modern object detection pipelines, the detection proposals are processed independently given the feature map. Therefore, they overlook the underlying relationships between objects and the surrounding background, which could have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Botao Ren , Botian Xu , Xue Yang , Yifan Pu , Jingyi Wang , Zhidong Deng

We propose an approach to detect flying objects such as UAVs and aircrafts when they occupy a small portion of the field of view, possibly moving against complex backgrounds, and are filmed by a camera that itself moves. Solving such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

Semantic segmentation of low-altitude UAV imagery presents unique challenges due to extreme scale variations, complex object boundaries, and limited computational resources on edge devices. Existing transformer-based segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Da Zhang , Gao Junyu , Zhao Zhiyuan

Room reidentification (ReID) is a challenging yet essential task with numerous applications in fields such as augmented reality (AR) and homecare robotics. Existing visual place recognition (VPR) methods, which typically rely on global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Runmao Yao , Yi Du , Zhuoqun Chen , Haoze Zheng , Chen Wang

Object detection using an oriented bounding box (OBB) can better target rotated objects by reducing the overlap with background areas. Existing OBB approaches are mostly built on horizontal bounding box detectors by introducing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Zhiming Chen , Kean Chen , Weiyao Lin , John See , Hui Yu , Yan Ke , Cong Yang

Current multispectral object detection methods often retain extraneous background or noise during feature fusion, limiting perceptual performance. To address this, we propose an innovative feature fusion framework based on cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jifeng Shen , Haibo Zhan , Xin Zuo , Heng Fan , Xiaohui Yuan , Jun Li , Wankou Yang

Despite recent advancements in computer vision research, object detection in aerial images still suffers from several challenges. One primary challenge to be mitigated is the presence of multiple types of variation in aerial images, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sungjune Park , Hyunjun Kim , Beomchan Park , Yong Man Ro

Geometric differences between cross-view images, such as drone and satellite views, significantly increase the challenge of Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL), which aims to acquire the geolocation of images by image retrieval. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Shuang Wang , Yi Li , Pei He , Licheng Jiao

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) object detection has been widely used in traffic management, agriculture, emergency rescue, etc. However, it faces significant challenges, including occlusions, small object sizes, and irregular shapes. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Wei Li , Jiaman Tang , Yang Li , Beihao Xia , Ligang Tan , Hongmao Qin