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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have enormous potential in the public and civil domains. These are particularly useful in applications where human lives would otherwise be endangered. Multi-UAV systems can collaboratively complete missions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Lav Gupta , Raj Jain , Gabor Vaszkun

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-enabled aerial communication provides a flexible, reliable, and cost-effective solution for a range of wireless applications. However, due to the high line-of-sight (LoS) probability, aerial communications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Shuang Liang , Pengfei Wang , Dusit Niyato

Fine-grained RGBT image semantic segmentation is crucial for all-weather unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) scene understanding. However, UAV RGBT image semantic segmentation faces two coupled challenges: cross-modal spatial misalignment caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fangqiang Fan , Zhicheng Zhao , Xiaoliang Ma , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

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

Integration of reinforcement learning with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve autonomous flight has been an active research area in recent years. An important part focuses on obstacle detection and avoidance for UAVs navigating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Jeremy Roghair , Kyungtae Ko , Amir Ehsan Niaraki Asli , Ali Jannesari

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a novel means of extracting road and traffic information from video data. In particular, by analyzing objects in a video frame, UAVs can detect traffic characteristics and road incidents. Leveraging…

Applications · Statistics 2021-10-06 Cesar N. Yahia , Shannon E. Scott , Stephen D. Boyles , Christian G. Claudel

Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as user equipment (UE) and base-stations (BSs) into an existing LTE-Advanced heterogeneous network (HetNet) can further enhance wireless connectivity and support emerging services. However, this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Abhaykumar Kumbhar , Hamidullah Binol , Ismail Guvenc , Kemal Akkaya

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with high-resolution sensors enable extensive data collection from previously inaccessible areas at a remarkable spatio-temporal scale, promising to revolutionize fields such as precision agriculture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Harnaik Dhami

As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become more accessible with a growing range of applications, the potential risk of UAV disruption increases. Recent development in deep learning allows vision-based counter-UAV systems to detect and track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Daniel Organisciak , Matthew Poyser , Aishah Alsehaim , Shanfeng Hu , Brian K. S. Isaac-Medina , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

High-speed obstacle avoidance of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in cluttered environments is a significant challenge. Existing UAV planning and obstacle avoidance systems can only fly at moderate speeds or at high speeds over empty or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Minghao Lu , Xiyu Fan , Bowen Xu , Zexuan Yan , Rui Peng , Han Chen , Lixian Zhang , Peng Lu

Developing reliable UAV navigation systems requires robust air-to-air object detectors capable of distinguishing between objects seen during training and previously unseen objects. While many methods address closed-set detection and achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Spyridon Loukovitis , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos

Autonomous navigation in unknown environments with obstacles remains challenging for micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) due to their limited onboard computing and sensing resources. Although various collision avoidance methods have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ruoyu Wang , Zixuan Guo , Yizhou Chen , Xinyi Wang , Ben M. Chen

Future networks of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be tasked to carry out ever-increasing complex operations that are time-critical and that require accurate localization performance (e.g., tracking the state of a malicious user).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

This paper focuses on the detection and classification of micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using radio frequency (RF) fingerprints of the signals transmitted from the controller to the micro-UAV. In the detection phase, raw signals are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Martins Ezuma , Fatih Erden , Chethan Kumar Anjinappa , Ozgur Ozdemir , Ismail Guvenc

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with multiple complementary sensors have tremendous potential for fast autonomous or remote-controlled semantic scene analysis, e.g., for disaster examination. In this work, we propose a UAV system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Simon Bultmann , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Remote identification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is becoming increasingly important since more UAVs are being widely used for different needs in urban areas. For example, in the US and in the EU, identification and position…

Intelligent detection and tracking of the vessels on the sea play a significant role in conducting traffic avoidance in unmanned surface vessels(USV). Current traffic avoidance software relies mainly on Automated Identification System (AIS)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Srikanth Vemula , Eulises Franco , Michael Frye

The high mobility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) enables them to be used in various civilian fields, such as rescue and cargo transport. Path-following is a crucial way to perform these tasks while sensing and collision avoidance are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Changheng Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Wangjun Jiang , Haoyue Jiang , Zhiyong Feng

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted sensor networks (UASNets), which play a crucial role in creating new opportunities, are experiencing significant growth in civil applications worldwide. UASNets improve disaster management through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yousef Emami

This paper investigates the three-dimensional (3D) deployment of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations in heterogeneous communication networks under constraints imposed by diverse ground obstacles. Given the diverse data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Senning Wan , Bin Li , Hongbin Chen , Lei Liu