Combining visible and infrared spectrum imagery using machine learning for small unmanned aerial system detection

VG Goecks, G Woods, J Valasek - … Target Recognition XXX, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
There is an increasing demand for technology and solutions to counter commercial, off-the-
shelf small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS). Advances in machine learning and deep …

Airborne localisation of small UAS using visual detection: A field experiment

G Laurito, B Fraser, K Rosser - 2020 IEEE symposium series …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of Uninhabited Aerial System (UAS) technology has grown immensely in
the last decade with its uptake producing many novel applications. However, the speed of …

Improving animal monitoring using small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) and deep learning networks

M Zhou, JA Elmore, S Samiappan, KO Evans… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent years, small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) have been used widely to monitor
animals because of their customizability, ease of operating, ability to access difficult to …

AIMED-Net: An Enhancing Infrared Small Target Detection Net in UAVs with Multi-Layer Feature Enhancement for Edge Computing

L Pan, T Liu, J Cheng, B Cheng, Y Cai - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the context of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), infrared imaging faces challenges
such as low quality, difficulty in detecting small targets, high false alarm rates, and …

Design and training of deep CNN-based fast detector in infrared SUAV surveillance system

Y Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Shi, J Zhang, M Wei - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-time detection of small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV) targets in SUAV surveillance
systems has become a challenge due to their high mobility, sudden bursts, and small sizes …

PRO-YOLOv4-tiny: towards more balance between accuracy and speed in the detection of small targets in remotely sensed images

P Zhou, P Wang, J Cao, Y Qiyuan - Remote Sensing Letters, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Aiming at the problem of low accuracy of small target detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) aerial remote sensing images and limited computing resources of UAV platform, this …

PHSI-RTDETR: A Lightweight Infrared Small Target Detection Algorithm Based on UAV Aerial Photography

S Wang, H Jiang, Z Li, J Yang, X Ma, J Chen, X Tang - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
To address the issues of low model accuracy caused by complex ground environments and
uneven target scales and high computational complexity in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) …

Infrared small UAV target detection based on depthwise separable residual dense network and multiscale feature fusion

H Fang, L Ding, L Wang, Y Chang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely applied in military and civilian fields,
but they also pose great threats to restricted areas, such as densely populated areas and …

Object detection methods for improving UAV autonomy and remote sensing applications

P Aposporis - 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The last decades the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) are being used in a variety of
applications, such as civil protection, security, agriculture, armed forces, that need real time …

An efficient rep-style gaussian–wasserstein network: Improved uav infrared small object detection for urban road surveillance and safety

T Aibibu, J Lan, Y Zeng, W Lu, N Gu - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Owing to the significant application potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and
infrared imaging technologies, researchers from different fields have conducted numerous …