arXiv:2410. 16089v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The unique cost, flexibility, speed, and efficiency of modern UAVs make them an attractive choice in many applications in contemporary society.
arXiv:2609.13013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flat roofs are among the most influential components of the building envelope, governing both structural performance and thermal efficiency, and thereb...
The paper examines RGB‑infrared fusion for binary wildfire segmentation using UAV imagery on the FLAME3 dataset. It compares RGB and infrared baselines with three fusion strategies across U‑Net, DeepLabV3+, and SegFormer architectures. Results show thermal data dominates segmentation performance, and feature‑level fusion with transformer‑based models yields the best results.
arXiv:2601. 11665v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are transforming infrastructure inspections in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management (AEC+FM) domain.
arXiv:2606. 11687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) threats have emerged as a defining security challenge of the 21st century.
In this study, UAV multispectral imagery is used to segment the severity of bacterial leaf blight (BLB) in rice using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer-based models. The evaluated architectures include U-Net with a ResNet- 101 encoder, U-Net++ with EfficientNet-B3 and EfficientNetB7, DeepLabV3+, and SegFormer, all trained under a common pipeline with three input configurations (multispectral only, multispectral+NDVI, and multispectral+NDRE).
The paper investigates Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) in Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) imagery, comparing modern convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer-based deep neural networks (DNNs). It examines how factors such as network size, architecture, pretraining methods, data augmentation, and regularization influence performance, aiming to identify the highest-performing model and provide a training roadmap for state‑of‑the‑art SAS‑ATR systems.
arXiv:2607. 03131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern video surveillance systems generate far more video streams than human operators can effectively monitor, making automated analysis essential for timely detection of security events.
The paper investigates the use of evidential deep learning (EDL) for multi‑modal anti‑UAV detection, comparing it with sigmoid baselines, Dempster‑Shafer evidence fusion, and uncertainty‑driven temporal sensor gating across three benchmarks (thermal tracking, RGB‑audio‑RF classification, and RGB‑IR tracking). EDL improves accuracy by up to 5.9 percentage points and better ranks classification errors, while the other components (DS fusion, Dirichlet vacuity, temporal gating) do not provide the expected benefits. The study concludes that the primary advantage of EDL stems from its training objective rather than its uncertainty estimates.
arXiv:2512. 18046v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as, drones pose increasing risks in civilian and defense settings, demanding accurate and real-time drone detection systems.
UFO-DETR is an end‑to‑end object detection framework designed for UAV imagery, addressing challenges such as scale variation, dense distribution, and the prevalence of tiny targets. It employs an LSKNet backbone to optimize receptive fields and reduce parameters, integrates DAttention and AIFI modules for flexible multi‑scale spatial modeling, and introduces a DynFreq‑C3 module that enhances small target detection via cross‑space frequency feature enhancement. Experiments demonstrate that UFO‑DETR outperforms RT‑DETR‑L in detection accuracy while improving computational efficiency, making it suitable for UAV edge computing.
The paper investigates how to balance model size and fine‑tuning strategy for UAV audio classification. Using a dataset of 3,100 clips across 31 drone classes, it compares transformer and convolutional backbones under full fine‑tuning, classifier‑only fine‑tuning, and four parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning methods. Results show that selective batch‑norm tuning of EfficientNet‑B7 yields the best accuracy (97.65%) while updating less than 0.5% of parameters, and that lightweight CNNs generally outperform transformers in both accuracy and efficiency.
arXiv:2607. 16455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing use of first-person-view drones in modern conflicts has created a demand for compact and reliable detection systems capable of operating in complex electromagnetic environments.