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Reliable pipeline inspection is critical to safe energy transportation, but is constrained by long distances, complex terrain, and risks to human inspectors. Unmanned aerial vehicles provide a flexible sensing platform, yet reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Wen Li , Hui Wang , Jinya Su , Cunjia Liu , Wen-Hua Chen , Shihua Li

This paper presents a method for planning optimal trajectories with a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) performing autonomous cinematography. The method is able to plan trajectories online and in a distributed manner, providing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Alfonso Alcántara , Jesús Capitán , Rita Cunha , Aníbal Ollero

We explore Bird's-Eye View (BEV) generation, converting a BEV map into its corresponding multi-view street images. Valued for its unified spatial representation aiding multi-sensor fusion, BEV is pivotal for various autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiaojie Xu , Tianshuo Xu , Fulong Ma , Yingcong Chen

Integrating LiDAR and Camera information into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) has become an essential topic for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Existing methods mostly adopt an independent dual-branch framework to generate LiDAR and camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hongxiang Cai , Zeyuan Zhang , Zhenyu Zhou , Ziyin Li , Wenbo Ding , Jiuhua Zhao

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform high-altitude manipulation tasks beyond just passive visual application can reduce the time, cost, and risk of human workers. Prior research on aerial manipulation has relied on either ground…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Guanqi He , Yash Jangir , Junyi Geng , Mohammadreza Mousaei , Dongwei Bai , Sebastian Scherer

Camera-based Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) perception often struggles between adopting 3D-to-2D or 2D-to-3D view transformation (VT). The 3D-to-2D VT typically employs resource-intensive Transformer to establish robust correspondences between 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Peidong Li , Wancheng Shen , Qihao Huang , Dixiao Cui

The airborne traffic monitoring system forms a novel technology of detecting vehicle motion. An optical digital camera located on an airborne platform produces a series of images which then are processed to recognized the fixed vehicles. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-09-28 Ihor Lubashevsky , Namik Gusein-zade , Dmitry Klochkov , Sergey Zuev

The development of safe and reliable autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles relies on the ability of the system to recognise and adapt to changes in the local environment based on sensor inputs. State-of-the-art local tracking and trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Andrea Albanese , Yanran Wang , Davide Brunelli , David Boyle

Efficient trajectory generation in complex dynamic environments remains an open problem in the unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The perception of the USV is usually interfered with by the swing of the hull and the ambient weather, making it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tao Huang , Zhe Chen , Wang Gao , Zhenfeng Xue , Yong Liu

A collision avoidance system based on simple digital cameras would help enable the safe integration of small UAVs into crowded, low-altitude environments. In this work, we present an obstacle avoidance system for small UAVs that uses a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Kyle Hatch , John Mern , Mykel Kochenderfer

A framework is introduced for planning unmanned aerial vehicle flight paths for visual surveillance of ground targets, each having particular viewing requirements. Specifically, each target is associated with a set of imaging parameters,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-16 Jeffrey R. Peters , Amit Surana , Grant S. Taylor , Terry S. Turpin , Francesco Bullo

As cooperative systems that leverage roadside cameras to assist autonomous vehicle perception become increasingly widespread, large-scale precise calibration of infrastructure cameras has become a critical issue. Traditional manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yaoye Zhu , Zhe Wang , Yan Wang

Due to its extensive applications, aerial image object detection has long been a hot topic in computer vision. In recent years, advancements in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) technology have further propelled this field to new heights,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Zhou , Junjie Li , CongYang Ou , Dawei Yan , Haokui Zhang , Xizhe Xue

Reliable estimation of network-wide traffic states is essential for urban traffic management. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), with their airborne full-sample continuous trajectory observation, bring new opportunities for traffic state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Jiarong Yao , Chaopeng Tan , Meng Wang , Wei Ma

Accurate prediction of communication link quality metrics is essential for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) systems, enabling smooth handovers, efficient beam management, and reliable low-latency communication. The increasing availability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Kimia Ehsani , Walid Saad

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

In the last twenty years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have garnered growing interest due to their expanding applications in both military and civilian domains. Detecting non-cooperative aerial vehicles with efficiency and estimating…

Online camera-to-ground calibration is to generate a non-rigid body transformation between the camera and the road surface in a real-time manner. Existing solutions utilize static calibration, suffering from environmental variations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Binbin Li , Xinyu Du , Yao Hu , Hao Yu , Wende Zhang

In recent years, using drone, also known as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in close-distance visual inspection has became an active area in many disciplines. However, many challenges still remain before we can achieve autonomous inspection,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Zhexiong Shang , Zhigang Shen

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used for numerous inspection and video capture tasks. Manually controlling UAVs in the vicinity of obstacles is challenging, however, and poses a high risk of collisions. Even for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Daniel Schleich , Sven Behnke