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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are increasingly deployed in vast low-altitude applications, owing to their capabilities in distributed sensing, flexible communication, and autonomous coordination. Nevertheless, the open and highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuntao Wang , Haojia Yang , Han Liu , Jianle Ba , Zhou Su

This paper proposes a novel approach to object detection on drone imagery, namely Multi-Proxy Detection Network with Unified Foreground Packing (UFPMP-Det). To deal with the numerous instances of very small scales, different from the common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yecheng Huang , Jiaxin Chen , Di Huang

A network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provides distributed coverage, reconfigurability, and maneuverability in performing complex cooperative tasks. However, it relies on wireless communications that can be susceptible to cyber…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Rayan Bahrami , Hamidreza Jafarnejadsani

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery is fundamentally challenged by a prevalence of small, densely packed, and occluded objects within cluttered backgrounds. Conventional detectors struggle with this domain, as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hongxing Peng , Lide Chen , Hui Zhu , Yan Chen

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imaging is a suitable solution for real-time monitoring different vehicles on the urban scale. Real-time vehicle detection with the use of uncertainty estimation in deep meta-learning for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mehdi Khoshboresh-Masouleh , Reza Shah-Hosseini

Providing ubiquitous connectivity to diverse device types is the key challenge for 5G and beyond 5G (B5G). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to be an important component of the upcoming wireless networks that can potentially…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Bin Li , Zesong Fei , Yan Zhang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), have intrigued different people from all walks of life, because of their pervasive computing capabilities. UAV equipped with vision techniques, could be leveraged to establish navigation autonomous control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Xiaoliang Wang , Peng Cheng , Xinchuan Liu , Benedict Uzochukwu

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond cellular networks is a promising solution to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This work addresses the challenge of identifying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) using radiofrequency (RF) fingerprinting in limited RF environments. The complexity and variability of RF signals, influenced by environmental interference and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Amir Kazemi , Salar Basiri , Volodymyr Kindratenko , Srinivasa Salapaka

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

Illumination inconsistency is a fundamental challenge in multi-view 3D reconstruction. Variations in sunlight direction, cloud cover, and shadows break the constant-lighting assumption underlying both classical multi-view stereo (MVS) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kang Du , Xue Liao , Junpeng Xia , Chaozheng Guo , Yi Gu , Yirui Guan , Duotun Wang , Sheng Huang , Zeyu Wang

This paper investigates federated multimodal learning (FML) assisted by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a focus on minimizing system latency and providing convergence analysis. In this framework, UAVs are distributed throughout the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Shaba Shaon , Dinh C. Nguyen

Object detection is increasingly used onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for various applications; however, the machine learning (ML) models for UAV-based detection are often validated using data curated for tasks unrelated to the UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Eung-Joo Lee , Damon M. Conover , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyyaa , Heesung Kwon , Jason Hill , Kenneth Evensen

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is a pivotal technology in low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) reconnaissance missions, enabling robust target detection and tracking by integrating thermal saliency with environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yufeng Xie , Cong Wang

Object detection in aerial images is an important task in environmental, economic, and infrastructure-related tasks. One of the most prominent applications is the detection of vehicles, for which deep learning approaches are increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Immanuel Weber , Jens Bongartz , Ribana Roscher

For unforeseen emergencies, such as natural disasters and pandemic events, it is highly demanded to cope with the explosive growth of mobile data traffic in extremely critical environments. An Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleet is an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Zhuohui Yao , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Tao Zhang , Hailin Zhang

Research in Anti-UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) tracking has explored various modalities, including RGB, TIR, and RGB-T fusion. However, a unified framework for cross-modal collaboration is still lacking. Existing approaches have primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Qionglin Ren , Dawei Zhang , Chunxu Tian , Dan Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicle object detection (UAV-OD) has been widely used in various scenarios. However, most existing UAV-OD algorithms rely on manually designed components, which require extensive tuning. End-to-end models that do not depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Huaxiang Zhang , Kai Liu , Zhongxue Gan , Guo-Niu Zhu

The dynamic range limitation of conventional RGB cameras reduces global contrast and causes loss of high-frequency details such as textures and edges in complex traffic environments (e.g., nighttime driving, tunnels), hindering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zhanwen Liu , Yujing Sun , Yang Wang , Nan Yang , Shengbo Eben Li , Xiangmo Zhao

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer wide-ranging applications but also pose significant safety and privacy violation risks in areas like airport and infrastructure inspection, spurring the rapid development of Anti-UAV technologies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunhui Zhang , Li Liu , Zhipeng Zhang , Yong Wang , Hao Wen , Xi Zhou , Shiming Ge , Yanfeng Wang