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Recognizing the motion of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is crucial for enabling cooperative perception and control in autonomous aerial swarms. Yet, vision-based recognition models relying only on RGB data often fail to capture the complex…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can pose a major risk for aviation safety, due to both negligent and malicious use. For this reason, the automated detection and tracking of UAV is a fundamental task in aerial security systems. Common…

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Object detection and counting are related but challenging problems, especially for drone based scenes with small objects and cluttered background. In this paper, we propose a new Guided Attention Network (GANet) to deal with both object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Yuanqiang Cai , Dawei Du , Libo Zhang , Longyin Wen , Weiqiang Wang , Yanjun Wu , Siwei Lyu

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVD) faces severe performance degradation when applied to UAV imagery due to the domain gap from ground-level datasets. To address this challenge, we propose a complete UAV-oriented solution that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Zhenhai Weng , Xinjie Li , Can Wu , Weijie He , Jianfeng Lv , Dong Zhou , Zhongliang Yu

There is a rapid growth of applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in traffic management, such as traffic surveillance, monitoring, and incident detection. However, the existing literature lacks solutions to real-time incident…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hualong Tang , Joseph Post , Achilleas Kourtellis , Brian Porter , Yu Zhang

Reliable dynamic object detection in cluttered environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous navigation. Purely geometric LiDAR pipelines that rely on clustering and heuristic filtering can miss dynamic obstacles when they move…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Juan Rached , Yixuan Jia , Kota Kondo , Jonathan P. How

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in UAV-based video is challenging due to variations in viewpoint, low resolution, and the presence of small objects. While other research on MOT dedicated to aerial videos primarily focuses on the academic aspect…

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This paper investigates the problem of traffic surveillance using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and proposes a domain-knowledge-aided airborne ground moving targets tracking algorithm. To improve the accuracy of multiple targets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Jianduo Chai , Shaoming He , Hyo-Sang Shin

Moving object Detection (MOD) is a critical task in autonomous driving as moving agents around the ego-vehicle need to be accurately detected for safe trajectory planning. It also enables appearance agnostic detection of objects based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hazem Rashed , Ahmad El Sallab , Senthil Yogamani

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in video sequences remains a challenging task, especially in scenarios with significant camera movements. This is because targets can drift considerably on the image plane, leading to erroneous tracking outcomes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Kefu Yi , Kai Luo , Xiaolei Luo , Jiangui Huang , Hao Wu , Rongdong Hu , Wei Hao

Robust detection of moving vehicles is a critical task for any autonomously operating outdoor robot or self-driving vehicle. Most modern approaches for solving this task rely on training image-based detectors using large-scale vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Jannik Zürn , Wolfram Burgard

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing images poses significant challenges due to unstable image quality, small object sizes, complex backgrounds, and environmental occlusions. Small objects, in particular, occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xudong Wang , Yaxin Peng , Chaomin Shen

Modern multi-object tracking (MOT) systems usually model the trajectories by associating per-frame detections. However, when camera motion, fast motion, and occlusion challenges occur, it is difficult to ensure long-range tracking or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Shoudong Han , Piao Huang , Hongwei Wang , En Yu , Donghaisheng Liu , Xiaofeng Pan , Jun Zhao

Unsupervised learning of depth and ego-motion, two fundamental 3D perception tasks, has made significant strides in recent years. However, most methods treat ego-motion as an auxiliary task, either mixing all motion types or excluding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mengtan Zhang , Zizhan Guo , Hongbo Zhao , Yi Feng , Zuyi Xiong , Yue Wang , Shaoyi Du , Hanli Wang , Rui Fan

How can we effectively engineer a computer vision system that is able to interpret videos from unconstrained mobility platforms like UAVs? One promising option is to make use of image restoration and enhancement algorithms from the area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Sreya Banerjee , Rosaura G. VidalMata , Zhangyang Wang , Walter J. Scheirer

To meet the requirements for managing unauthorized UAVs in the low-altitude economy, a multi-modal UAV trajectory prediction method based on the fusion of LiDAR and millimeter-wave radar information is proposed. A deep fusion network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuan Gao , Xinyu Guo , Wenjing Xie , Zifan Wang , Hongwen Yu , Gongyang Li , Shugong Xu

Collision detection is one of the most challenging tasks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This is especially true for small or micro UAVs, due to their limited computational power. In nature, flying insects with compact and simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jiannan Zhao , Hongxin Wang , Shigang Yue

Using the context of trajectory estimation and tracking for multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), we explore the challenges in applying high-gain observers to highly dynamic systems. The multi-rotor will operate in the presence of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Connor J Boss , Vaibhav Srivastava

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have great potential in urban traffic monitoring due to their rapid speed, cost-effectiveness, and extensive field-of-view, while being unconstrained by traffic congestion. However, their limited flight…

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