Drone-YOLO: An Efficient Neural Network Method for Target Detection in Drone Images [PDF]
Drones, 2023 Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery is a meaningful foundation in various research domains. However, UAV imagery poses unique challenges, including large image sizes, small sizes detection objects, dense distribution, overlapping ...
Zhengxin Zhang
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TPH-YOLOv5: Improved YOLOv5 Based on Transformer Prediction Head for Object Detection on Drone-captured Scenarios [PDF]
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2021 Object detection on drone-captured scenarios is a recent popular task. As drones always navigate in different altitudes, the object scale varies violently, which burdens the optimization of networks.
Xingkui Zhu +3 more
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Autonomous Drone Racing: A Survey [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on robotics, 2023 Over the last decade, the use of autonomous drone systems for surveying, search and rescue, or last-mile delivery has increased exponentially. With the rise of these applications comes the need for highly robust, safety-critical algorithms that can ...
D. Hanover +8 more
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Champion-level drone racing using deep reinforcement learning
Nature, 2023 An autonomous system is described that combines deep reinforcement learning with onboard sensors collecting data from the physical world, enabling it to fly faster than human world champion drone pilots around a race track.
Elia Kaufmann +5 more
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Drone-Based RGB-Infrared Cross-Modality Vehicle Detection Via Uncertainty-Aware Learning [PDF]
IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology (Print), 2020 Drone-based vehicle detection aims at detecting vehicle locations and categories in aerial images. It empowers smart city traffic management and disaster relief. Researchers have made a great deal of effort in this area and achieved considerable progress.
Yiming Sun, Bing Cao, Pengfei Zhu, Q. Hu
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University-1652: A Multi-view Multi-source Benchmark for Drone-based Geo-localization [PDF]
ACM Multimedia, 2020 We consider the problem of cross-view geo-localization. The primary challenge is to learn the robust feature against large viewpoint changes. Existing benchmarks can help, but are limited in the number of viewpoints.
Zhedong Zheng, Yunchao Wei, Yi Yang
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Fully neuromorphic vision and control for autonomous drone flight [PDF]
Science Robotics, 2023 Biological sensing and processing is asynchronous and sparse, leading to low-latency and energy-efficient perception and action. In robotics, neuromorphic hardware for event-based vision and spiking neural networks promises to exhibit similar ...
F. Paredes-Vallés +5 more
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Advances and Challenges in Drone Detection and Classification Techniques: A State-of-the-Art Review
Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2023 The fast development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, has brought a unique set of opportunities and challenges to both the civilian and military sectors.
U. Seidaliyeva +4 more
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The highD Dataset: A Drone Dataset of Naturalistic Vehicle Trajectories on German Highways for Validation of Highly Automated Driving Systems [PDF]
International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018 Scenario-based testing for the safety validation of highly automated vehicles is a promising approach that is being examined in research and industry.
R. Krajewski +3 more
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Last-Mile Drone Delivery: Past, Present, and Future
Drones, 2023 Sustainable green products and services garner more attention from companies and enterprises that aim to succeed and grow in highly competitive markets by imposing less harms on the environment and ecosystems.
Hossein Eskandaripour, E. Boldsaikhan
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