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In this paper, we propose RFUAV as a new benchmark dataset for radio-frequency based (RF-based) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) identification and address the following challenges: Firstly, many existing datasets feature a restricted variety…

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In this paper, we present our proposed approach for active tracking to increase the autonomy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using event cameras, low-energy imaging sensors that offer significant advantages in speed and dynamic range.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ala Souissi , Hajer Fradi , Panagiotis Papadakis

Event cameras have higher temporal resolution, and require less storage and bandwidth compared to traditional RGB cameras. However, due to relatively lagging performance of event-based approaches, event cameras have not yet replace…

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The rapid proliferation of drones requires balancing innovation with regulation. To address security and privacy concerns, techniques for drone detection have attracted significant attention.Passive solutions, such as frame camera-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kuan Dai , Hongxin Zhang , Sheng Zhong , Yi Zhou

In recent years, drone detection has quickly become a subject of extreme interest: the potential for fast-moving objects of contained dimensions to be used for malicious intents or even terrorist attacks has posed attention to the necessity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Gabriele Magrini , Federico Becattini , Pietro Pala , Alberto Del Bimbo , Antonio Porta

Event cameras offer unparalleled advantages for real-time perception in dynamic environments, thanks to the microsecond-level temporal resolution and asynchronous operation. Existing event detectors, however, are limited by fixed-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Dongyue Lu , Lingdong Kong , Gim Hee Lee , Camille Simon Chane , Wei Tsang Ooi

Drones are not fully trusted yet. Their reliance on radios and cameras for navigation raises safety and privacy concerns. These systems can fail, causing accidents, or be misused for unauthorized recordings. Considering recent regulations…

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Collaborative path planning for robot swarms in complex, unknown environments without external positioning is a challenging problem. This requires robots to find safe directions based on real-time environmental observations, and to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Chenxi Li , Weining Lu , Zhihao Ma , Litong Meng , Bin Liang

Small, fast, and lightweight drones present significant challenges for traditional RGB cameras due to their limitations in capturing fast-moving objects, especially under challenging lighting conditions. Event cameras offer an ideal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gabriele Magrini , Niccolò Marini , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Niccolò Biondi , Pietro Pala , Alberto Del Bimbo

Now a days, UAVs such as drones are greatly used for various purposes like that of capturing and target detection from ariel imagery etc. Easy access of these small ariel vehicles to public can cause serious security threats. For instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Aleena Ajaz , Ayesha Salar , Tauseef Jamal , Asif Ullah Khan

Drone detection in visually complex environments remains challenging due to background clutter, small object scale, and camouflage effects. While generic object detectors like YOLO exhibit strong performance in low-texture scenes, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tamara R. Lenhard , Andreas Weinmann , Tobias Koch

For the autonomous drone-based inspection of wind turbine (WT) blades, accurate detection of the WT and its key features is essential for safe drone positioning and collision avoidance. Existing deep learning methods typically rely on…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have quickly become common in various airspaces, representing a wide range of applications from recreation flying to commercial photography and package delivery. With the increasing prevalence of UAVs, it…

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LiDAR-based 3D object detection is a critical technology for the development of autonomous driving and robotics. However, the high cost of data annotation limits its advancement. We propose a novel and effective active learning (AL) method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Huang-Yu Chen , Jia-Fong Yeh , Jia-Wei Liao , Pin-Hsuan Peng , Winston H. Hsu

Domain adaptation is an inspiring solution to the misalignment issue of day/night image features for nighttime UAV tracking. However, the one-step adaptation paradigm is inadequate in addressing the prevalent difficulties posed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Haobo Zuo , Changhong Fu , Guangze Zheng , Liangliang Yao , Kunhan Lu , Jia Pan

This paper presents a novel efficient method for spatial monitoring of the distribution of correlated field signals, such as temperature, humidity, etc. using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The spatial signal is compressed to its…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-27 Maryam Zahra , Homa Tajiani , Hadi Alasti

Visible-infrared object detection has gained sufficient attention due to its detection performance in low light, fog, and rain conditions. However, visible and infrared modalities captured by different sensors exist the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wencong Wu , Xiuwei Zhang , Hanlin Yin , Shun Dai , Hongxi Zhang , Yanning Zhang

Traditional framework of discriminative correlation filters (DCF) is often subject to undesired boundary effects. Several approaches to enlarge search regions have been already proposed in the past years to make up for this shortcoming.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Ziyuan Huang , Changhong Fu , Yiming Li , Fuling Lin , Peng Lu

A joint frame and carrier frequency synchronization algorithm for coherent optical systems, based on the digital computation of the fractional Fourier transform (FRFT), is proposed. The algorithm utilizes the characteristics of energy…

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This paper focuses on a real-time vehicle detection and urban traffic behavior analysis system based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) traffic video. By using UAV to collect traffic data and combining the YOLOv8 model and SORT tracking…

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