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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are increasingly deployed for complex missions, including disaster response, intelligent logistics, and environmental monitoring. These missions generally require coordinated collaboration among…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yao Wu , Ziye Jia , Jingjing Zhao , Haoyang Wang , Qihui Wu , Zhu Han

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Knut Peterson , Zaid Mayers , Azmain Yousuf , Priontu Chowdhury , Asher Zaczepinski , Solmaz Arezoomandan , Reihaneh Maarefdoust , David Han

Autonomous vehicle platforms of varying spatial scales are employed within the research and development spectrum based on space, safety and monetary constraints. However, deploying and validating autonomy algorithms across varying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Tanmay Vilas Samak , Chinmay Vilas Samak , Venkat Narayan Krovi

In this paper, the focus is on improving the efficiency and precision of mineral data collection using UAVs by addressing key challenges associated with sensor integration. These challenges include mitigating electromagnetic interference,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Robel Efrem , Alex Coutu , Sajad Saeedi

Drone detection is pivotal in numerous security and counter-UAV applications. However, existing deep learning-based methods typically struggle to balance robust feature representation with computational efficiency. This challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jun Yang , Dong Wang , Hongxu Yin , Hongpeng Li , Jianxiong Yu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are finding use in applications that place increasing emphasis on robustness to external disturbances including extreme wind. However, traditional multirotor UAV platforms do not directly sense wind;…

As drones are getting more and more entangled in our society, more untrained users require the capability to operate them. This scenario is to be achieved through the development of artificial intelligence capabilities assisting the human…

Modern computing platforms rely on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to initialize hardware and coordinate the transition to the operating system. Because this execution environment operates with high privileges and persists…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hadar Cochavi Gorelik , Orel Fadlon , Denis Klimov , Oleg Brodt , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici

The emerging drone aerial survey has the advantages of low cost, high efficiency, and flexible use. However, UAVs are often equipped with cheap POS systems and non-measurement cameras, and their flight attitudes are easily affected. How to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Jiangying Qin , Hanqi Zhang

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

The growing integration of drones into civilian, commercial, and defense sectors introduces significant cybersecurity concerns, particularly with the increased risk of network-based intrusions targeting drone communication protocols.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Md. Alamgir Hossain , Waqas Ishtiaq , Md. Samiul Islam

In this correspondence, we study the physical layer security in a stochastic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) network from a network-wide perspective, where the locations of UAVs are modeled as a Mat$\acute{\text{e}}$rn hard-core point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiawei Lyu , Hui-Ming Wang

The adoption process of innovative software-intensive technologies leverages complex trust concerns in different forms and shapes. Perceived safety plays a fundamental role in technology adoption, being especially crucial in the case of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Danish Iqbal , Barbora Buhnova , Emilia Cioroaica

Automatic detection of flying drones is a key issue where its presence, especially if unauthorized, can create risky situations or compromise security. Here, we design and evaluate a multi-sensor drone detection system. In conjunction with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Fredrik Svanström , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Cristofer Englund

Compared with existing vehicle re-identification (ReID) tasks conducted with datasets collected by fixed surveillance cameras, vehicle ReID for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is still under-explored and could be more challenging. Vehicles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Aihuan Yao , Jiahao Qi , Ping Zhong

The detection of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is important for the protection of civilian and military infrastructure. In this paper we propose a cost effective UAV detection system using sound signals obtained from microphones. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ungvári Gergő , Ferenc Braun , Attila Ámon , Péter Kackstädter , János Volk , Péter Kovács , Tamás Dózsa

There is a marked increase in delivery services in urban areas, and with Jeff Bezos claiming that 86% of the orders that Amazon ships weigh less than 5 lbs, the time is ripe for investigation into economical methods of automating the final…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Joe Kinahan , Alan F. Smeaton

The rapid development of the semiconductor industry and the ubiquity of electronic devices have led to a significant increase in the counterfeiting of integrated circuits (ICs). This poses a major threat to public health, the banking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Runze Liu , Prasun Datta , Anirudh Nakra , Chau-Wai Wong , Min Wu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) individual (ID) identification is a critical security surveillance strategy in low-altitude integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic knowledge distillation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haolin Zheng , Ning Gao , Donghong Cai , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou

Firmware serves as a foundational software layer in modern computers, initiating as the first code executed on platform hardware, similar in function to a minimal operating system. Defined as a software interface between an operating system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Mahsa Farahani , Ghazal Shenavar , Ali Hosseinghorban , Alireza Ejlali