Unmanned aerial vehicle path planning for traffic estimation and detection of non-recurrent congestion

CN Yahia, SE Scott, SD Boyles… - Transportation Letters, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a novel means of extracting road and traffic
information from video data. In particular, by analyzing objects in a video frame, UAVs can …

Orientation-and scale-invariant multi-vehicle detection and tracking from unmanned aerial videos

J Wang, S Simeonova, M Shahbazi - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Along with the advancement of light-weight sensing and processing technologies,
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently become popular platforms for intelligent …

A robust and efficient UAV path planning approach for tracking agile targets in complex environments

S Cui, Y Chen, X Li - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The research into the tracking methods of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for agile targets
is multi-disciplinary, with important application scenarios. Using a quadrotor as an example …

A traffic-aware approach for enabling unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in smart city scenarios

H El-Sayed, M Chaqfa, S Zeadally, D Puthal - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In smart cities, vehicular applications require high computation capabilities and low-latency
communication. Edge computing offers promising solutions for addressing these …

A Path Planning Method for Collaborative Coverage Monitoring in Urban Scenarios

S Xu, Z Zhou, H Liu, X Zhang, J Li, H Gao - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become a popular and cost-effective
technology in urban scenarios, encompassing applications such as material transportation …

Multi-camera vehicle tracking system based on spatial-temporal filtering

P Ren, K Lu, Y Yang, Y Yang, G Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Multi-Camera multi-target tracking is essential in the research field of urban intelligence
traffic. It shows that the task becomes extremely difficult due to the changes of illumination …

UavSim: An Open-Source Simulator for Multiple UAV Path Planning

K Thompson, FJ Kurfess, D Walter… - … Computing in Sensor …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Though the primary method for evaluating multiple UAV path planning algorithms is
simulation, there is no lightweight open-source software built to compare algorithms. As a …

Multi-UAVs collaborative tracking of moving target with maximized visibility in urban environment

J Wang, YX Wu, YQ Chen, S Ju - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with limited field of view are utilized to track a moving
ground target continuously in urban environment. In urban environment, the sight lines of …

Effective and efficient detection of moving targets from a UAV's camera

S Minaeian, J Liu, YJ Son - IEEE transactions on intelligent …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and fast detection of the moving targets from a moving camera are an important yet
challenging problem, especially when the computational resources are limited. In this paper …

Lessons learned: Application of small uav for urban highway traffic monitoring

K Ro, JS Oh, L Dong - 45th AIAA aerospace sciences meeting and …, 2007 - arc.aiaa.org
Traffic and emergency monitoring systems are essential constituents of Intelligent
Transportation System (ITS) technologies, but the lack of traffic monitoring has become a …