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Multi‐object tracking using dominant sets

Yonatan T. Tesfaye, Eyasu Zemene, Marcello Pelillo, Andrea Prati • IET Computer Vision (2016)

Multi‐object tracking is an interesting but challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most previous works based on data association techniques merely take into account the relationship between detection responses in a locally limite...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1049/iet-cvi.2015.0297

A Systematic YOLO-Specific Model Selection for Mechanical Fault Identification in High-Voltage Insulators

Arailym Serikbay, Venera Nurmanova, Yerbol Akhmetov, Amin Zollanvari et al. • International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems (2025)

Regular monitoring of outdoor insulators is crucial to ensure the reliable functioning of the power grid. With recent progress in computer vision technologies, traditional manual and expensive visual inspections can now be replaced by autom...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/etep/8669289

Performance Analysis of the SIFT Operator for Automatic Feature Extraction and Matching in Photogrammetric Applications

Francesco Nex, Davide Marenchino, Andrea Lingua • Sensors (2009)

In the photogrammetry field, interest in region detectors, which are widely used in Computer Vision, is quickly increasing due to the availability of new techniques. Images acquired by Mobile Mapping Technology, Oblique Photogrammetric Came...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s90503745

Vision-Based Autonomous Landing of a Quadrotor on the Perturbed Deck of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle

Riccardo Polvara, Sanjay Sharma, Jian Wan, Andrew Manning et al. • Drones (2018)

Autonomous landing on the deck of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is still a major challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, a fiducial marker is located on the platform so as to facilitate the task since it is possibl...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/drones2020015

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Structural Health Monitoring and Computer Vision-Aided Procedure for Seismic Safety Measures of Linear Infrastructures

Luna Ngeljaratan, Elif Ecem Bas, Mohamed A. Moustafa • Sensors (2024)

Computer vision in the structural health monitoring (SHM) field has become popular, especially for processing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, but still has limitations both in experimental testing and in practical applications. Prior wo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s24051450

MAT-Fly: An Educational Platform for Simulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Aimed to Detect and Track Moving Objects

Giuseppe Silano, Luigi Iannelli • IEEE Access (2021)

The main motivation of this work is to propose a simulation approach for a specific task within the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) field, i.e., the visual detection and tracking of arbitrary moving objects. In particular, it is described MAT...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3064758

A Survey of Deep Learning Techniques and Computer Vision in Robotic and Drone with Applications

Khazaal Abbas Maaroof Maysoon, Bouhlel Med Salim • BIO Web of Conferences (2024)

The methods of deep learning have lately demonstrated outstanding outcomes of robotic objects such as imagination, localization and striping. Its exceptional abilities in order to learn idealizations from complicated data gathered in the re...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/20249700008

Advances in Computer Vision-Based Civil Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring

Billie F. Spencer, Vedhus Hoskere, Yasutaka Narazaki • Engineering (2019)

Computer vision techniques, in conjunction with acquisition through remote cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), offer promising non-contact solutions to civil infrastructure condition assessment. The ultimate goal of such a system i...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2018.11.030

Low-Power Computer Vision

George K. Thiruvathukal, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Jaeyoun Kim, Yiran Chen et al. • Chapman & Hall/CRC eBooks (2022)

Energy efficiency is critical for running computer vision on battery-powered systems, such as mobile phones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones). This book collects the methods that have won the annual IEEE Low-Power Computer Visio...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003162810

Addressing practical challenge of using autopilot drone for asphalt surface monitoring: Road detection, segmentation, and following

Hormazd Ranjbar, Perry Forsythe, Alireza Ahmadian Fard Fini, Mojtaba Maghrebi et al. • Results in Engineering (2023)

According to the recent world bank report, around 80% of a life-cycle cost of a road is devoted to maintenance which includes monitoring and repair processes. To more effectively keep road serviceability, knowing the current status of road ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.rineng.2023.101130

CG-DINO: Improved Network for Small Object Detection in Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle Imagery Based on DINO

Jian Liu, Pei Niu, Yihui Jiang, Zilong Zhao et al. • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2026)

Object detection in uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) acquired images remains a challenging task due to extreme scale variation, dense object layouts, and complex backgrounds, etc. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs), transformers, an...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2026.3729713

A review on deep learning in UAV remote sensing

Lucas Prado Osco, José Marcato, Ana Paula Marques Ramos, Lúcio André de Castro Jorge et al. • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (2021)

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) learn representation from data with an impressive capability, and brought important breakthroughs for processing images, time-series, natural language, audio, video, and many others. In the remote sensing field, ...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102456

Condensing AI-Based Attitude Control Using Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks for Memory Efficiency

Kirill Djebko, Patrick Schurk, Tom Baumann, Frank Puppe et al. • Aerospace (2025)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming engineering fields, from robotics to aerospace, with applications in control systems for UAVs and satellites. This work builds on a previously developed AI attitude controller for the Inn...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/aerospace12121039

Multimodal Deep Learning

Jiquan Ngiam, Aditya Khosla, Mingyu Kim, Juhan Nam et al. (2011)

Deep networks have been successfully applied to unsupervised feature learning for single modalities (e.g., text, images or audio). In this work, we propose a novel application of deep networks to learn features over multiple modalities. We ...

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An AI-Based Deep Learning with K-Mean Approach for Enhancing Altitude Estimation Accuracy in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Prot Piyakawanich, Pattarapong Phasukkit • Drones (2024)

In the rapidly evolving domain of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), precise altitude estimation remains a significant challenge, particularly for lightweight UAVs. This research presents an innovative approach to enhance altitude estimation ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/drones8120718

Distributed biconnectivity-preserving flocking with fast obstacle avoidance for UAV swarms

Jiaxin Li, Tong Duan, Peng Yi, Zhen Zhang et al. • Complex & Intelligent Systems (2026)

Abstract Obstacles in low-altitude environments force unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms to frequently alter their flight paths and communication links, which can easily cause network interruptions. It remains a significant challenge for ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s40747-026-02343-y

Rider Optimization With Deep Learning Based Image Encryption for Secure Drone Communication

N. Kannaiya Raja, E. Laxmi Lydia, Thumpala Archana Acharya, K. Radhika et al. • IEEE Access (2023)

In recent years, drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) got significant attention among researchers because of their extensive application in commercial applications, border surveillance, etc. As the conventional terrestrial communicatio...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3324068

Combining the YOLOv4 Deep Learning Model with UAV Imagery Processing Technology in the Extraction and Quantization of Cracks in Bridges

Szu-Pyng Kao, Yung-Chen Chang, Feng-Liang Wang • Sensors (2023)

Bridges are often at risk due to the effects of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and typhoons. Bridge inspection assessments normally focus on cracks. However, numerous concrete structures with cracked surfaces are highly elevated or ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s23052572