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.
By Ami Pandat, Punna Rajasekhar, Gopika Vinod, Rohit Shukla
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.
By G\'abor Farkas, G\'abor Fazekas, Karakai Patrik, Andr\'as N\'emeth, G\'abor Farkas
arXiv:2602. 20958v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) frameworks aid human search tasks by detecting and recognizing specific individuals, then tracking and following them while maintaining a safe distance.
By Luka \v{S}iktar, Branimir \'Caran, Bojan \v{S}ekoranja, Marko \v{S}vaco
arXiv:2608. 19866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a novel data-driven approach to camera-based autonomy for micro-drones in GPS-denied, radio-challenging indoor environments.
By Niklas Voigt, Hartmut Surmann
arXiv:2609.13647v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has made aerial-image object detection increasingly important for natural-resource mo...
By Hao Wang
arXiv:2609.07780v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Automated drone surveillance has become increasingly important for public safety, critical infrastructure protection,and restricted airspace monito...
By Ami Pandat, Rajasekhar Punna, Gopika Vinod, Rohit Shukla
arXiv:2409. 16808v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern applications such as autonomous vehicles, intelligent surveillance, and smart city systems increasingly require object detection on resource-constrained edge devices.
By Daghash K. Alqahtani, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Maria A. Rodriguez, Adel N. Toosi
The paper introduces Cross-Scale Channel-wise Knowledge Distillation (CSCWD), a training-time framework that transfers high‑resolution spatial representations from a YOLO11m‑P2 teacher to a lightweight YOLO11n student without changing the student’s inference architecture. CSCWD aligns teacher P2 features with student P3 while also applying same‑scale distillation at deeper pyramid levels, yielding a 2.92‑point mAP@0.5 improvement over the baseline and a 2.09‑point gain over same‑scale distillation alone. In zero‑shot tests on DUT‑Anti‑UAV and on a Raspberry Pi 5, the 2.58‑million‑parameter student reaches 50.32% mAP@0.5 at 82.32 ms latency (12.15 fps) with negligible runtime or memory increase.
By Amir Zamani, Zeinab Ghasemi-Naraghi
arXiv:2607. 02636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object detection is a fundamental capability for AI-driven perception in safety-critical drone and edge-vision systems, including disaster response, operational security environments, infrastructure monitoring and defense applications.
By Daniel M. Jimenez-Gutierrez, Enrique Zuazua, Georgios Kellaris, Joaquin del Rio, Oleksii Sliusarenko, Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria
The paper introduces the Wide-area Spatio-temporal Scene Understanding (WSTU) problem, which demands simultaneous wide-area coverage, per-target resolution, and temporal continuity—capabilities lacking in existing datasets. To address this, the authors present HARD, an ultra‑high‑resolution (12768×9564) UAV dataset annotated for object detection, multi‑object tracking, and scene‑level visual question answering. They also propose a latency‑aware metric, streaming‑HOTA (s‑HOTA), and show through baseline experiments that high resolution and processing latency significantly impact detection, tracking, and VQA performance, revealing gaps in current methods for WSTU.
By Yuhang Zhu, Meiyi Zhu, Yunkai Dang, Zhangnan Li, Yuxuan Wang, Wenbin Li, Hongbing Pan
arXiv:2606. 03748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time vision demands models that are accurate, efficient, and simple to deploy across diverse hardware.
By Glenn Jocher, Jing Qiu, Mengyu Liu, Shuai Lyu, Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Muhammet Esat Kalfaoglu
arXiv:2509.12458v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Miniaturized Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can access indoor and hard-to-reach spaces, but severe constraints on payload and autonomy have...
By \`Almos Veres-Vit\`alyos, Filip Lemic, Daniel Johannes Bugelnig, Joan Bernaus Casades\'us, Genis Castillo Gomez-Raya, Sergi Abadal, Bernhard Rinner, Xavier Costa-P\'erez