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Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is crucial for autonomous navigation and has broad applications in robotic automation fields. However, reliable UAV tracking remains a challenging task due to various difficulties like frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Changhong Fu , Mutian Cai , Sihang Li , Kunhan Lu , Haobo Zuo , Chongjun Liu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are transforming infrastructure inspections in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management (AEC+FM) domain. By synthesizing insights from over 150 studies, this review paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Amir Farzin Nikkhah , Dong Chen , Bradford Campbell , Somayeh Asadi , Arsalan Heydarian

Multistatic collaborative sensing eliminates self-interference, achieves spatial diversity gains, and enables wide-range seamless integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, conventional data fusion methods suffer from severe…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Ming Gao , Jianhua Mo , Meixia Tao

This paper introduces a novel approach to video object detection detection and tracking on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). By incorporating metadata, the proposed approach creates a memory map of object locations in actual world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Benjamin Kiefer , Yitong Quan , Andreas Zell

Conventional multi-object tracking (MOT) systems are predominantly designed for pedestrian tracking and often exhibit limited generalization to other object categories. This paper presents a generalized tracking framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hamidreza Hashempoor , Yu Dong Hwang

Hyperspectral cameras can provide unique spectral signatures for consistently distinguishing materials that can be used to solve surveillance tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel real-time hyperspectral likelihood maps-aided tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Burak Uzkent , Aneesh Rangnekar , M. J. Hoffman

Autonomous aerial-surface robot teams offer a scalable solution for maritime monitoring, but deployment remains difficult due to water-induced visual artifacts and bandwidth-limited coordination. This paper presents a decentralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Muhammad Farhan Ahmed , Vincent Frémont

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to maintain consistent identities of objects across video frames. Associating objects in low-frame-rate videos captured by moving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in actual combat scenarios is complex due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Markiyan Kostiv , Anatolii Adamovskyi , Yevhen Cherniavskyi , Mykyta Varenyk , Ostap Viniavskyi , Igor Krashenyi , Oles Dobosevych

Multi-Camera Multi-Target (MCMT) tracking aims to locate and associate the same targets across multiple camera views. Existing methods typically adopt a two-stage framework, involving single-camera tracking followed by inter-camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yihao Zhen , Mingyue Xu , Qiang Wang , Baojie Fan , Jiahua Dong , Tinghui Zhao , Huijie Fan

Air-to-air tracking of swarm UAVs presents significant challenges due to the complex nonlinear group motion and weak visual cues for small objects, which often cause detection failures, trajectory fragmentation, and identity switches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Zhaochen Chu , Tao Song , Ren Jin , Shaoming He , Defu Lin , Siqing Cheng

3D multi-object tracking aims to uniquely and consistently identify all mobile entities through time. Despite the rich spatiotemporal information available in this setting, current 3D tracking methods primarily rely on abstracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Colton Stearns , Davis Rempe , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Sergey Zakharov , Vitor Guizilini , Yanchao Yang , Leonidas J Guibas

The growing proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) poses major challenges for reliable airspace surveillance, as drones are typically small, have low radar cross-sections, and often move slowly in cluttered environments. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Anders Malthe Westerkam , Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Troels Pedersen

Object tracking has been broadly applied in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tasks in recent years. However, existing algorithms still face difficulties such as partial occlusion, clutter background, and other challenging visual factors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yujie He , Changhong Fu , Fuling Lin , Yiming Li , Peng Lu

Autonomous driving holds great promise in addressing traffic safety concerns by leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor technology. Multi-Object Tracking plays a critical role in ensuring safer and more efficient navigation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) localization is of significant importance as it provides fundamental position and orientation for autonomous operations like intelligent vehicles. Integrating diverse and complementary sensors such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Wei Liu , Jiaqi Zhu , Guirong Zhuo , Wufei Fu , Zonglin Meng , Yishi Lu , Min Hua , Feng Qiao , You Li , Yi He , Lu Xiong

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is a crucial task in computer vision society. However, most tracking-by-detection MOT methods, with available detected bounding boxes, cannot effectively handle static, slow-moving and fast-moving camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jiarui Cai , Yizhou Wang , Haotian Zhang , Hung-Min Hsu , Chengqian Ma , Jenq-Neng Hwang

We present a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle control (UAV) and estimation system for supporting replicable research through realistic simulations and real-world experiments. We propose a unique multi-frame localization paradigm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tomas Baca , Matej Petrlik , Matous Vrba , Vojtech Spurny , Robert Penicka , Daniel Hert , Martin Saska

Multi-View Multi-Object Tracking (MV-MOT) aims to localize and maintain consistent identities of objects observed by multiple sensors. This task is challenging, as viewpoint changes and occlusion disrupt identity consistency across views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Aditya Iyer , Jack Roberts , Nora Ayanian

We discuss surveillance with multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that minimize idleness (the time between consecutive visits of sensing locations) and constrain latency (the time between capturing data at a sensing location and its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Jürgen Scherer , Bernhard Rinner

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for multi-target multi-camera tracking (MTMCT) of vehicles based on metadata-aided re-identification (MA-ReID) and the trajectory-based camera link model (TCLM). Given a video sequence and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Hung-Min Hsu , Jiarui Cai , Yizhou Wang , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Kwang-Ju Kim