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The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) into Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) offers synoptic visibility for traffic monitoring, yet scalable deployment is hindered by trajectory fragmentation, where vehicle identity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jianlin Ye , Christos Kyrkou , Panayiotis Kolios

Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery is challenging, mainly due to scale variation, structural detail degradation, and limited computational resources. In high-altitude scenarios, fine-grained features are further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xuecheng Bai , Yuxiang Wang , Chuanzhi Xu , Boyu Hu , Kang Han , Ruijie Pan , Xiaowei Niu , Xiaotian Guan , Liqiang Fu , Pengfei Ye

Salient object detection is the pixel-level dense prediction task which can highlight the prominent object in the scene. Recently U-Net framework is widely used, and continuous convolution and pooling operations generate multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Zhengyi Liu , Yuan Wang , Zhengzheng Tu , Yun Xiao , Bin Tang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications have become increasingly prevalent in aerial photography and object recognition. However, there are major challenges to accurately capturing small targets in object detection due to the imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Rongxin Huang , Guangfeng Lin , Wenbo Zhou , Zhirong Li , Wenhuan Wu

We address the problem of multi-modal object tracking in video and explore various options of fusing the complementary information conveyed by the visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) modalities including pixel-level, feature-level and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Xuefeng Zhu , Josef Kittler

Thermal infrared (TIR) image has proven effectiveness in providing temperature cues to the RGB features for multispectral pedestrian detection. Most existing methods directly inject the TIR modality into the RGB-based framework or simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Xiaoxiao Yang , Yeqian Qiang , Huijie Zhu , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Multimodal 3D object detectors leverage the strengths of both geometry-aware LiDAR point clouds and semantically rich RGB images to enhance detection performance. However, the inherent heterogeneity between these modalities, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhuoqun Su , Huimin Lu , Shuaifeng Jiao , Junhao Xiao , Yaonan Wang , Xieyuanli Chen

While LiDAR sensors have been successfully applied to 3D object detection, the affordability of radar and camera sensors has led to a growing interest in fusing radars and cameras for 3D object detection. However, previous radar-camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Jisong Kim , Minjae Seong , Geonho Bang , Dongsuk Kum , Jun Won Choi

3D object detection is an important task that has been widely applied in autonomous driving. To perform this task, a new trend is to fuse multi-modal inputs, i.e., LiDAR and camera. Under such a trend, recent methods fuse these two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yang Song , Lin Wang

3D object detection based on LiDAR-camera fusion is becoming an emerging research theme for autonomous driving. However, it has been surprisingly difficult to effectively fuse both modalities without information loss and interference. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Guojun Wang , Bin Tian , Yachen Zhang , Long Chen , Dongpu Cao , Jian Wu

Recent advancements in 3D object detection have benefited from multi-modal information from the multi-view cameras and LiDAR sensors. However, the inherent disparities between the modalities pose substantial challenges. We observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Juhan Cha , Minseok Joo , Jihwan Park , Sanghyeok Lee , Injae Kim , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing, with its advantages of rapid information acquisition and low cost, has been widely applied in scenarios such as emergency response. However, due to the long imaging distance and complex imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kejun Ren , Xin Wu , Lianming Xu , Li Wang

Owing to the capacity of performing full-time target search, cross-modality vehicle re-identification (Re-ID) based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is gaining more attention in both video surveillance and public security. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xingyue Liu , Jiahao Qi , Chen Chen , Kangcheng Bin , Ping Zhong

Traffic object detection under variable illumination is challenging due to the information loss caused by the limited dynamic range of conventional frame-based cameras. To address this issue, we introduce bio-inspired event cameras and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhanwen Liu , Nan Yang , Yang Wang , Yuke Li , Xiangmo Zhao , Fei-Yue Wang

Depth estimation in complex real-world scenarios is a challenging task, especially when relying solely on a single modality such as visible light or thermal infrared (THR) imagery. This paper proposes a novel multimodal depth estimation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Zelin Meng , Takanori Fukao

Object detection in aerial imagery is a critical task in applications such as UAV reconnaissance. Although existing methods have extensively explored feature interaction between different modalities, they commonly rely on simple fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zidong Gu , Shoufu Tian

Lidar-based sensing drives current autonomous vehicles. Despite rapid progress, current Lidar sensors still lag two decades behind traditional color cameras in terms of resolution and cost. For autonomous driving, this means that large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Tianwei Yin , Xingyi Zhou , Philipp Krähenbühl

Object detection is an essential task for autonomous robots operating in dynamic and changing environments. A robot should be able to detect objects in the presence of sensor noise that can be induced by changing lighting conditions for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Oier Mees , Andreas Eitel , Wolfram Burgard

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm systems necessitate efficient collaborative perception mechanisms for diverse operational scenarios. Current Bird's Eye View (BEV)-based approaches exhibit two main limitations: bounding-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zefu Lin , Wenbo Chen , Xiaojuan Jin , Yuran Yang , Lue Fan , Yixin Zhang , Yufeng Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

3D object detection serves as the core basis of the perception tasks in autonomous driving. Recent years have seen the rapid progress of multi-modal fusion strategies for more robust and accurate 3D object detection. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Bingqi Shen , Shuwei Dai , Yuyin Chen , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang , Yanmei Jiao