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The increasing use of compact UAVs has created significant threats to public safety, while traditional drone detection systems are often bulky and costly. To address these challenges, we propose AV-DTEC, a lightweight self-supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhenyuan Xiao , Yizhuo Yang , Guili Xu , Xianglong Zeng , Shenghai Yuan

Robust object detection for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) in complex water environments is essential for reliable navigation and operation. Specifically, water surface object detection faces challenges from blurred edges and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Huilin Yin , Pengyu Wang , Senmao Li , Jun Yan , Daniel Watzenig

Vision-based drone-to-drone detection has attracted increasing attention due to its importance in numerous tasks such as vision-based swarming, aerial see-and-avoid, and malicious drone detection. However, existing methods often encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hanqing Guo , Xiuxiu Lin , Shiyu Zhao

The increasing deployment of small drones as tools of conflict and disruption has amplified their threat, highlighting the urgent need for effective anti-drone measures. However, the compact size of most drones presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanfang Liang , Jinming Hu , Xiaohuan Ling , Bing Wang

While one-stage detectors like YOLOv8 offer fast training speed, they often under-perform on detecting small objects as a trade-off. This becomes even more critical when detecting tiny objects in aerial imagery due to low-resolution targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kihyun Kim , Michalis Lazarou , Tania Stathaki

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically drones equipped with remote sensing object detection technology, have rapidly gained a broad spectrum of applications and emerged as one of the primary research focuses in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Feng Xiong , Hanzheng Hu , Zhengnan Jiang

As drone-based object detection technology continues to evolve, the demand is shifting from merely detecting objects to enabling users to accurately identify specific targets. For example, users can input particular targets as prompts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hyun-Ki Jung

We consider the problem of omni-supervised object detection, which can use unlabeled, fully labeled and weakly labeled annotations, such as image tags, counts, points, etc., for object detection. This is enabled by a unified architecture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Pei Wang , Zhaowei Cai , Hao Yang , Gurumurthy Swaminathan , Nuno Vasconcelos , Bernt Schiele , Stefano Soatto

The detection of small objects in aerial images is a fundamental task in the field of computer vision. Moving objects in aerial photography have problems such as different shapes and sizes, dense overlap, occlusion by the background, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Haodong Li , Haicheng Qu

The extensive application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and related domains has created an urgent need for accurate and efficient multi-object tracking (MOT) technologies, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Juanqin Liu , Leonardo Plotegher , Eloy Roura , Shaoming He

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

Drone-based target detection presents inherent challenges, such as the high density and overlap of targets in drone-based images, as well as the blurriness of targets under varying lighting conditions, which complicates identification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yuchen Zheng , Yuxin Jing , Jufeng Zhao , Guangmang Cui

Although much significant progress has been made in the research field of object detection with deep learning, there still exists a challenging task for the objects with small size, which is notably pronounced in UAV-captured images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yingjie Liu

Obstacle avoidance is a key feature for safe Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation. While solutions have been proposed for static obstacle avoidance, systems enabling avoidance of dynamic objects, such as drones, are hard to implement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Adrian Carrio , Sai Vemprala , Andres Ripoll , Srikanth Saripalli , Pascual Campoy

In the realm of aerial imaging, the ability to detect small objects is pivotal for a myriad of applications, encompassing environmental surveillance, urban design, and crisis management. Leveraging RetinaNet, this work unveils DDR-Net: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zhicheng Tang , Jinwen Tang , Yi Shang

Visual detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a critical task in surveillance systems due to their small physical size and environmental challenges. Although deep learning models have achieved significant progress, deploying them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Amir Zamani , Zeinab Abedini

We present an energy-efficient anti-UAV system that integrates frame-based and event-driven object tracking to enable reliable detection of small and fast-moving drones. The system reconstructs binary event frames using run-length encoding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yuncheng Lu , Yucen Shi , Aobo Li , Zehao Li , Junying Li , Bo Wang , Tony Tae-Hyoung Kim

Detection of small-sized targets is of paramount importance in many aerial vision-based applications. The commonly deployed low cost unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for aerial scene analysis are highly resource constrained in nature. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Murari Mandal , Manal Shah , Prashant Meena , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Real-time tracking of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on edge devices faces a fundamental resolution-speed conflict. Downsampling high-resolution imagery to standard detector input sizes causes small target features to collapse below…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiawen Wen , Yu Hu , Suixuan Qiu , Jinshan Huang , Xiaowen Chu

Infrared object tracking plays a crucial role in Anti-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Anti-UAV) applications. Existing trackers often depend on cropped template regions and have limited motion modeling capabilities, which pose challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Chenxu Peng , Chenxu Wang , Minrui Zou , Danyang Li , Zhengpeng Yang , Yimian Dai , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li