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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted plenty of attention due to their high flexibility and enhanced communication ability. However, the limited coverage and energy of UAVs make it difficult to provide timely wireless service for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Rui Wang , Kaitao Meng , Deshi Li

Drones have proven to be useful in many industry segments such as security and surveillance, where e.g. on-board real-time object tracking is a necessity for autonomous flying guards. Tracking and following suspicious objects is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Maarten Vandersteegen , Kristof Vanbeeck , Toon goedeme

Reliable 3D object detection is fundamental to autonomous driving, and multimodal fusion algorithms using cameras and LiDAR remain a persistent challenge. Cameras provide dense visual cues but ill posed depth; LiDAR provides a precise 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Venkatraman Narayanan , Bala Sai , Rahul Ahuja , Pratik Likhar , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

Camouflaged object detection (COD) presents a persistent challenge in accurately identifying objects that seamlessly blend into their surroundings. However, most existing COD models overlook the fact that visual systems operate within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-12 Xinran Liua , Lin Qia , Yuxuan Songa , Qi Wen

Recent advances in 4D imaging radar have enabled robust perception in adverse weather, while camera sensors provide dense semantic information. Fusing the these complementary modalities has great potential for cost-effective 3D perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xiaozhi Li , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

Most contributions on Few-Shot Object Detection (FSOD) evaluate their methods on natural images only, yet the transferability of the announced performance is not guaranteed for applications on other kinds of images. We demonstrate this with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Pierre Le Jeune

For 3D object detection, both camera and lidar have been demonstrated to be useful sensory devices for providing complementary information about the same scenery with data representations in different modalities, e.g., 2D RGB image vs 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Xinhao Xiang , Jiawei Zhang

Camera-radar fusion offers a robust and low-cost alternative to Camera-lidar fusion for the 3D object detection task in real-time under adverse weather and lighting conditions. However, currently, in the literature, it is possible to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ruan Bispo , Dane Mitrev , Letizia Mariotti , Clément Botty , Denver Humphrey , Anthony Scanlan , Ciarán Eising

Accurate and robust 3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving, where fusing data from sensors like LiDAR and camera enhances detection accuracy. However, sensor malfunctions such as corruption or disconnection can degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Reza Sadeghian , Niloofar Hooshyaripour , Chris Joslin , WonSook Lee

Reliable and precise detection of small and irregular objects, such as meteor fragments and rocks, is critical for autonomous navigation and operation in lunar surface exploration. Existing multimodal 3D perception methods designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xin Chen , Kang Luo , Yangyi Xiao , Hesheng Wang

Embodied navigation demands comprehensive scene understanding and precise spatial reasoning. While image-text models excel at interpreting pixel-level color and lighting cues, 3D-text models capture volumetric structure and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Haihong Hao , Mingfei Han , Changlin Li , Zhihui Li , Xiaojun Chang

In the last decade, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and transformer based object detectors have achieved high performance on a large variety of datasets. Though the majority of detection literature has developed this capability on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Cuong Ly , Grayson Jorgenson , Dan Rosa de Jesus , Henry Kvinge , Adam Attarian , Yijing Watkins

Space debris and inactive satellites pose a threat to the safety and integrity of operational spacecraft and motivate the need for space situational awareness techniques. These uncooperative targets create a challenging tracking and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Hannah Grauer , Elena-Sorina Lupu , Connor Lee , Soon-Jo Chung , Darren Rowen , Benjamen Bycroft , Phaedrus Leeds , John Brader

Efficient structural perception is essential for mapping and autonomous navigation on resource-constrained robots. Existing 3D methods are computationally prohibitive, while traditional 2D geometric approaches lack robustness. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Guanliang Li , Pedro Espinosa-Angulo , David Perez-Saura , Santiago Tapia-Fernandez

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for object detection. However, the existing UAV-based object detection systems are subject to the serious challenge, namely, the finite computation, energy and communication resources, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Xi Song , Lu Yuan , Zhibo Qu , Fuhui Zhou , Qihui Wu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Rose Qingyang Hu

Multi-scale detection plays an important role in object detection models. However, researchers usually feel blank on how to reasonably configure detection heads combining multi-scale features at different input resolutions. We find that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yi Shi , Jiang Wu , Shixuan Zhao , Gangyao Gao , Tao Deng , Hongmei Yan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) detection technology plays a critical role in mitigating security risks and safeguarding privacy in both military and civilian applications. However, traditional detection methods face significant challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Juanqin Liu , Leonardo Plotegher , Eloy Roura , Cristino de Souza Junior , Shaoming He

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

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive study on a new task called collaborative camouflaged object detection (CoCOD), which aims to simultaneously detect camouflaged objects with the same properties from a group of relevant images. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Cong Zhang , Hongbo Bi , Tian-Zhu Xiang , Ranwan Wu , Jinghui Tong , Xiufang Wang

Open-set object detection (OSOD) is highly desirable for robotic manipulation in unstructured environments. However, existing OSOD methods often fail to meet the requirements of robotic applications due to their high computational burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yonghao He , Hu Su , Haiyong Yu , Cong Yang , Wei Sui , Cong Wang , Song Liu