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Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles are traditionally used for military missions, warfare, and espionage. However, the usage of drones has significantly increased due to multiple industrial applications involving security and inspection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Purbaditya Bhattacharya , Patrick Nowak

Drones are not fully trusted yet. Their reliance on radios and cameras for navigation raises safety and privacy concerns. These systems can fail, causing accidents, or be misused for unauthorized recordings. Considering recent regulations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Ricardo Ampudia Hernández , Talia Xu , Yanqiu Huang , Marco A. Zúñiga Zamalloa

In recent years, significant advances in computer vision have also propelled progress in remote sensing. Concurrently, the use of drones has expanded, with many organizations incorporating them into their operations. Most drones are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Panagiotis Koletsis , Vasilis Efthymiou , Maria Vakalopoulou , Nikos Komodakis , Anastasios Doulamis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has created urgent demand for precise UAV monitoring. Existing RGB-based systems rely on spatial cues that degrade at small scales, particularly with high inter-type similarity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yihang Luo , Jun Chen , Chao Xiao , Yingqian Wang , Zhaoxu Li , Qiang Ling , Xu He , Nuo Chen , Gaowei Guo , Hongge Li , Miao Li , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Li Liu , Wei An , Zhijie Chen

Unmanned aerial vehicles, and multi-rotors in particular, can now perform dexterous tasks in impervious environments, from infrastructure monitoring to emergency deliveries. Autonomous drone racing has emerged as an ideal benchmark to…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with mounted cameras have the advantage of capturing aerial (bird-view) images. The availability of aerial visual data and the recent advances in object detection algorithms led the computer vision community…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ilker Bozcan , Erdal Kayacan

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

Airplane detection from satellite imagery is a challenging task due to the complex backgrounds in the images and differences in data acquisition conditions caused by the sensor geometry and atmospheric effects. Deep learning methods provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Tolga Bakirman , Elif Sertel

Depth estimation is a fundamental component of spatial perception for autonomous driving and other unmanned systems operating in open urban environments. Existing depth datasets such as KITTI, nuScenes, and DDAD have advanced the field but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xianda Guo , Ruijun Zhang , Yiqun Duan , Ruilin Wang , Matteo Poggi , Keyuan Zhou , Wenzhao Zheng , Wenke Huang , Gangwei Xu , Yanlun Peng , Yuan Si , Qin Zou

LiDAR-based 3D detection plays a vital role in autonomous navigation. Surprisingly, although autonomous vehicles (AVs) must detect both near-field objects (for collision avoidance) and far-field objects (for longer-term planning),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Neehar Peri , Mengtian Li , Benjamin Wilson , Yu-Xiong Wang , James Hays , Deva Ramanan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially drones, equipped with vision techniques have become very popular in recent years, with their extensive use in wide range of applications. Many of these applications require use of computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Subrahmanyam Vaddi , Chandan Kumar , Ali Jannesari

Detecting small drones, often indistinguishable from birds, is crucial for modern surveillance. This work introduces a drone detection methodology built upon the medium-sized YOLOv11 object detection model. To enhance its performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rayson Laroca , Marcelo dos Santos , David Menotti

Over the last few years, the many uses of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have captured the interest of both the scientific and the industrial communities. A typical scenario consists in the use of UAVs for surveillance or target-search…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Federico Mason , Federico Chiariotti , Martina Capuzzo , Davide Magrin , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

Object detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is of great importance in many aerial vision-based applications. Despite the great success of generic object detection methods, a significant performance drop is observed when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

We have witnessed significant progress in deep learning-based 3D vision, ranging from neural radiance field (NeRF) based 3D representation learning to applications in novel view synthesis (NVS). However, existing scene-level datasets for…

Drones or UAVs, equipped with different sensors, have been deployed in many places especially for urban traffic monitoring or last-mile delivery. It provides the ability to control the different aspects of traffic given real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 George Adaimi , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Dependable visual drone detection is crucial for the secure integration of drones into the airspace. However, drone detection accuracy is significantly affected by domain shifts due to environmental changes, varied points of view, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Fardad Dadboud , Hamid Azad , Varun Mehta , Miodrag Bolic , Iraj Mantegh

In image processing, it is essential to detect and track air targets, especially UAVs. In this paper, we detect the flying drone using a fisheye camera. In the field of diagnosis and classification of objects, there are always many problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Fatemeh Mahdavi , Roozbeh Rajabi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are known for their fast and versatile applicability. With UAVs' growth in availability and applications, they are now of vital importance in serving as technological support in search-and-rescue(SAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiaomin Lin , Cheng Liu , Allen Pattillo , Miao Yu , Yiannis Aloimonous

Vision-based drone-to-drone detection has attracted increasing attention due to its importance in numerous tasks such as vision-based swarming, aerial see-and-avoid, and malicious drone detection. However, existing methods often encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hanqing Guo , Xiuxiu Lin , Shiyu Zhao