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This paper proposes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based distributed sensing framework that uses orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms to detect the position of a ground target, and UAVs operate in half-duplex mode.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xavier Alejandro Flores Cabezas , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio , Markku Juntti

Achieving safe, high-speed autonomous flight in complex environments with static, dynamic, or mixed obstacles remains challenging, as a single perception modality is incomplete. Depth cameras are effective for static objects but suffer from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dikai Shang , Jingyue Zhao , Shi Xu , Nanyang Ye , Lei Wang

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used for numerous inspection and video capture tasks. Manually controlling UAVs in the vicinity of obstacles is challenging, however, and poses a high risk of collisions. Even for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Daniel Schleich , Sven Behnke

Accurate perception of UAVs in complex low-altitude environments is critical for airspace security and related intelligent systems. Developing reliable solutions requires large-scale, accurately annotated, and multimodal data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Longkun Zou , Jiale Wang , Rongqin Liang , Hai Wu , Ke Chen , Yaowei Wang

LiDAR point clouds have become the most common data source in autonomous driving. However, due to the sparsity of point clouds, accurate and reliable detection cannot be achieved in specific scenarios. Because of their complementarity with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Leichao Cui , Xiuxian Li , Min Meng , Xiaoyu Mo

The unprecedented increase of commercial airlines and private jets over the next ten years presents a challenge for air traffic control. Precise flight trajectory prediction is of great significance in air transportation management, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Kai Zhang , Bowen Chen

4D radar has received significant attention in autonomous driving thanks to its robustness under adverse weathers. Due to the sparse points and noisy measurements of the 4D radar, most of the research finish the 3D object detection task by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hanzhi Zhong , Zhiyu Xiang , Ruoyu Xu , Jingyun Fu , Peng Xu , Shaohong Wang , Zhihao Yang , Tianyu Pu , Eryun Liu

The trackers based on lightweight neural networks have achieved great success in the field of aerial remote sensing, most of which aggregate multi-stage deep features to lift the tracking quality. However, existing algorithms usually only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Xinglong Sun , Haijiang Sun , Shan Jiang , Jiacheng Wang , Jiasong Wang

State-of-the-art LiDAR-camera 3D object detectors usually focus on feature fusion. However, they neglect the factor of depth while designing the fusion strategy. In this work, we are the first to observe that different modalities play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mingqian Ji , Jian Yang , Shanshan Zhang

Efficient UAV exploration in unknown environments requires rapid coverage expansion while maintaining accurate and reliable localization, since safe navigation in complex scenes depends on consistent mapping and pose estimation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jianping Li , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Liu , Yi Wang , Yiheng Chen , Xinhang Xu , Rui Jin , Boyu Zhou , Lihua Xie

LiDAR and Radar are two complementary sensing approaches in that LiDAR specializes in capturing an object's 3D shape while Radar provides longer detection ranges as well as velocity hints. Though seemingly natural, how to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yingjie Wang , Jiajun Deng , Yao Li , Jinshui Hu , Cong Liu , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Wanli Ouyang , Yanyong Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized inspection tasks by offering a safer, more efficient, and flexible alternative to traditional methods. However, battery limitations often constrain their effectiveness, necessitating the…

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 high mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enables them to be used in various civilian fields, such as rescue and cargo transport. Path-following is a crucial way to perform these tasks while sensing and collision avoidance are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Changheng Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Wangjun Jiang , Haoyue Jiang , Zhiyong Feng

Accurate beam prediction is essential for mitigating signalling overhead and latency in integrated sensing and communication-enabled massive multi-input multi-output systems. With the aid of multimodal learning, the prediction accuracy can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Zijian Zheng , Wenqiang Yi , Hyundong Shin , Arumugam Nallanathan

Augmenting wireless networks with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, offers a promising avenue for providing reliable, cost-effective, and on-demand wireless services to desired areas. However, existing UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Aksh Garg

Accurate beam prediction is essential for maintaining reliable links and high spectral efficiency in dynamic low-altitude wireless networks. However, existing approaches often fail to capture the deep correlations across heterogeneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Xiaotong Zhao , Yuanhao Cui , Weijie Yuan , Ziye Jia , Heng Liu , Chengwen Xing

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

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. In this work, we propose a UAV system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Simon Bultmann , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

In response to the evolving challenges posed by small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which possess the potential to transport harmful payloads or independently cause damage, we introduce MMAUD: a comprehensive Multi-Modal Anti-UAV…