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Previous advances in object tracking mostly reported on favorable illumination circumstances while neglecting performance at nighttime, which significantly impeded the development of related aerial robot applications. This work instead…

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Visual object tracking, which is representing a major interest in image processing field, has facilitated numerous real world applications. Among them, equipping unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with real time robust visual trackers for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bowen Li , Changhong Fu , Fangqiang Ding , Junjie Ye , Fuling Lin

Multiobject tracking (MOT) is an important task in applications including autonomous driving, ocean sciences, and aerospace surveillance. Traditional MOT methods are model-based and combine sequential Bayesian estimation with data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shaoxiu Wei , Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

We present a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle control (UAV) and estimation system for supporting replicable research through realistic simulations and real-world experiments. We propose a unique multi-frame localization paradigm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tomas Baca , Matej Petrlik , Matous Vrba , Vojtech Spurny , Robert Penicka , Daniel Hert , Martin Saska

Dynamic environments such as urban areas are still challenging for popular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) algorithms. Existing datasets typically fail to capture the dynamic nature of these environments, therefore making it difficult to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Koji Minoda , Fabian Schilling , Valentin Wüest , Dario Floreano , Takehisa Yairi

Without manually annotated identities, unsupervised multi-object trackers are inferior to learning reliable feature embeddings. It causes the similarity-based inter-frame association stage also be error-prone, where an uncertainty problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Kai Liu , Sheng Jin , Zhihang Fu , Ze Chen , Rongxin Jiang , Jieping Ye

The demand for accurate and fast trajectory tracking for multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have grown recently due to advances in UAV avionics technology and application domains. In many applications, the multirotor UAV is required…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Abdulaziz Y. Alkayas , Mohamad Chehadeh , Abdulla Ayyad , Yahya Zweiri

Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is crucial to autonomous vehicle perception. End-to-end transformer-based algorithms, which detect and track objects simultaneously, show great potential for the MOT task. However, most existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Ce Zhang , Chengjie Zhang , Yiluan Guo , Lingji Chen , Michael Happold

A tracking controller for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is developed to track moving targets undergoing unknown translational and rotational motions. The main challenges are to control both the relative positions and angles between the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hsin-Ai Hung , Hao-Huan Hsu , Teng-Hu Cheng

Low cost real-time identification of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) dynamics is an active area of research supported by the surge in demand and emerging application domains. Such real-time identification capabilities shorten…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Abdulla Ayyad , Mohamad Chehadeh , Pedro Silva , Mohamad Wahbah , Oussama Abdul Hay , Igor Boiko , Yahya Zweiri

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in videos remains challenging due to complex object motions and crowded scenes. Recent DETR-based frameworks offer end-to-end solutions but typically process detection and tracking queries jointly within a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xu Yang , Gady Agam

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are transforming infrastructure inspections in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management (AEC+FM) domain. By synthesizing insights from over 150 studies, this review paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amir Farzin Nikkhah , Dong Chen , Bradford Campbell , Somayeh Asadi , Arsalan Heydarian

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…

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Multi-drone surveillance systems offer enhanced coverage and robustness for pedestrian tracking, yet existing approaches struggle with dynamic camera positions and complex occlusions. This paper introduces MATRIX (Multi-Aerial TRacking In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Kosta Dakic , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Rodrigo N. Calheiros , Teng Joon Lim

The development of computer vision algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) imagery heavily relies on the availability of annotated high-resolution aerial data. However, the scarcity of large-scale real datasets with pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Giulia Rizzoli , Francesco Barbato , Matteo Caligiuri , Pietro Zanuttigh

This paper introduces a novel approach to video object detection detection and tracking on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). By incorporating metadata, the proposed approach creates a memory map of object locations in actual world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Benjamin Kiefer , Yitong Quan , Andreas Zell

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) usually suffers from drifting over long-time runs, the accuracy is easily affected by dynamic objects. We propose DynaVIG, a navigation and object tracking system based on the integration of Monocular Vision,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ronghe Jin , Yan Wang , Zhi Gao , Xiaoji Niu , Li-Ta Hsu , Jingnan Liu

The ability to understand the surrounding scene is of paramount importance for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). This paper presents a system capable to work in an online fashion, giving an immediate response to the arise of anomalies surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Leonardo Rossi , Vittorio Bernuzzi , Tomaso Fontanini , Massimo Bertozzi , Andrea Prati

Object tracking is an important functionality of edge video analytic systems and services. Multi-object tracking (MOT) detects the moving objects and tracks their locations frame by frame as real scenes are being captured into a video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Sanjana Vijay Ganesh , Yanzhao Wu , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Kompella , Ling Liu

During the past decade, the Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted increasing attention due to their flexible, extensive, and dynamic space-sensing capabilities. The volume of video captured by UAVs is exponentially growing along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Chuanmin Jia , Feng Ye , Huifang Sun , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao