arXiv:2412. 02831v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The increasing accessibility of radiometric thermal imaging sensors for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers significant potential for advancing AI-driven aerial wildfire management.
By Bryce Hopkins, Leo ONeill, Michael Marinaccio, Mobin Habibpour, Eric Rowell, Russell Parsons, Sarah Flanary, Irtija Nazim, Carl Seielstad, Fatemeh Afghah
Visible-infrared (VIS-IR) alignment is a key pre-training task for robust multi-sensor perception. Most existing methods use uniform patch-wise contrastive learning, but this can be unreliable in VIS-IR data because imaging-physics differences make some spatially paired regions inherently less comparable, and aligning them with equal strength hinders representation learning and downstream transfer.
arXiv:2608. 17799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ground-to-Air (G2A) drone detection in medium- and long-wave infrared (MWIR/LWIR) imagery is challenging due to reduced texture information, sensor noise, weak thermal contrast, and the scarcity of annotated data.
By Tanel Liiv, Sander Soodla, Nzamba Bignoumba, Alma M. Liezenga, Toomas Pruuden
Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed on infrared (IR) remote sensing imagery in security-critical settings, yet their adversarial robustness remains unexamined. We present AirflowAttack, to our knowledge the first adversarial attack for IR remote-sensing VLMs and the first to weaponize thermal-airflow turbulence as the perturbation prior.
arXiv:2607. 06485v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed on infrared (IR) remote sensing imagery in security-critical settings, yet their adversarial robustness remains unexamined.
By Cong Su, Jiaju Han, Xuemeng Sun, Chengyin Hu, Qike Zhang, Jiujiang Guo, Yiwei Wei, Jiahuan Long
arXiv:2607. 12065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While visual navigation has been extensively studied in agricultural robotics, most existing systems assume daytime conditions.
By Robel Mamo, Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak, Taeyeong Choi