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A vision-based drone-to-drone detection system is crucial for various applications like collision avoidance, countering hostile drones, and search-and-rescue operations. However, detecting drones presents unique challenges, including small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sairam VC Rebbapragada , Pranoy Panda , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

With the rapid advancement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and computer vision technologies, object detection from UAV perspectives has emerged as a prominent research area. However, challenges for detection brought by the extremely small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Liugang Lu , Dabin He , Congxiang Liu , Zhixiang Deng

Reliable detection, localization and identification of small drones is essential to promote safe, secure and privacy-respecting operation of Unmanned-Aerial Systems (UAS), or simply, drones. This is an increasingly challenging problem with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Thakshila Wimalajeewa Wewelwala , Thomas W. Tedesso , Tony Davis

This paper addresses the problem of multi-object tracking in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) footage. It plays a critical role in various UAV applications, including traffic monitoring systems and real-time suspect tracking by the police.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 InPyo Song , Jangwon Lee

Detecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in low-altitude environments is essential for perception and defense systems but remains highly challenging due to complex backgrounds, camouflage, and multimodal interference. In real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shenghui Huang , Menghao Hu , Longkun Zou , Hongyu Chi , Zekai Li , Feng Gao , Fan Yang , Qingyao Wu , Ke Chen

Despite previous DETR-like methods having performed successfully in generic object detection, tiny object detection is still a challenging task for them since the positional information of object queries is not customized for detecting tiny…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yi-Xin Huang , Hou-I Liu , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Recent advances in camera equipped drone applications and their widespread use increased the demand on vision based object detection algorithms for aerial images. Object detection process is inherently a challenging task as a generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Berat Mert Albaba , Sedat Ozer

Unmanned aerial vehicles serve as primary sensing platforms for surveillance, traffic monitoring, and disaster response, making aerial object detection a central problem in applied computer vision. Current detectors struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Sohail Ali Farooqui , Zuhair Ahmed Khan Taha , Mohammed Mudassir Uddin , Shahnawaz Alam

Most recent UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) detectors focus primarily on general challenge such as uneven distribution and occlusion. However, the neglect of scale challenges, which encompass scale variation and small objects, continues to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Xuexue Li

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images remains a highly challenging task, primarily caused by the complexity of background noise and the imbalance of target scales. Traditional methods easily struggle to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Wenfeng Zhang , Jun Ni , Yue Meng , Xiaodong Pei , Wei Hu , Qibing Qin , Lei Huang

Small targets are particularly difficult to detect due to their low pixel count, complex backgrounds, and varying shooting angles, which make it hard for models to extract effective features. While some large-scale models offer high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Xuerui Zhang

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) must reliably detect thin obstacles such as wires, poles, and branches to navigate safely in real-world environments. These structures remain difficult to perceive because they occupy few pixels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Negar Fathi

Tiny object detection is one of the key challenges in the field of object detection. The performance of most generic detectors dramatically decreases in tiny object detection tasks. The main challenge lies in extracting effective features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Bing Cao , Haiyu Yao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu

Detecting small drones, often indistinguishable from birds, is crucial for modern surveillance. This work introduces a drone detection methodology built upon the medium-sized YOLOv11 object detection model. To enhance its performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rayson Laroca , Marcelo dos Santos , David Menotti

Achieving a balance between computational efficiency and detection accuracy in the realm of rotated bounding box object detection within aerial imagery is a significant challenge. While prior research has aimed at creating lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zhifei Shi , Zongyao Yin , Sheng Chang , Xiao Yi , Xianchuan Yu

Infrared unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target images often suffer from motion blur degradation caused by rapid sensor movement, significantly reducing contrast between target and background. Generally, detection performance heavily depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiaolin Wang , Houzhang Fang , Qingshan Li , Lu Wang , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images poses significant challenges due to complex scale variations and class imbalance among objects. Existing methods often address these challenges separately, overlooking the intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhenteng Li , Sheng Lian , Dengfeng Pan , Youlin Wang , Wei 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

Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery is challenging, mainly due to scale variation, structural detail degradation, and limited computational resources. In high-altitude scenarios, fine-grained features are further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xuecheng Bai , Yuxiang Wang , Chuanzhi Xu , Boyu Hu , Kang Han , Ruijie Pan , Xiaowei Niu , Xiaotian Guan , Liqiang Fu , Pengfei Ye