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  1. ReDiffNet: Differential RGB-Infrared Learning for Low-Light UAV Oriented Vehicle Detection

    Oct 4, 2026Qifan Zhang, Ziran Zhou, Ruijie Li +4Remote Sensing Small Object DetectionInfrared Object Detection

    Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan, China

  2. The Impact of Processing Parameters on High-Accuracy Measurements in UAV Photogrammetry

    Oct 1, 2026Paweł Ćwiąkała, Edyta Puniach, Elżbieta Pastucha +1Bundle Adjustment3D Reconstruction

    AGH University of Krakow, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland · The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark

  3. Recognition of Urbanized Areas in UAV-Derived Very-High-Resolution Visible-Light Imagery

    Sep 30, 2026Edyta Puniach, Wojciech Gruszczyński, Paweł Ćwiąkała +2Land Cover ClassificationUAV Remote Sensing

    AGH University of Krakow, Faculty of Geo-Data Science, Geodesy, and Environmental Engineering, Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland · The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark

  4. Determining Vertical Displacement of Agricultural Areas Using UAV-Photogrammetry and a Heteroscedastic Deep Learning Model

    Sep 30, 2026Wojciech Gruszczyński, Edyta Puniach, Paweł Ćwiąkała +1U-NetUAV Remote Sensing

    AGH University of Krakow, Faculty of Geo-Data Science, Geodesy, and Environmental Engineering, Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland

  5. ReVA: A Scene-Centric Dataset Beyond Repetition for Remote Sensing Video Question Answering

    Sep 28, 2026Zhen Yao, Likai Wang, Yuming Yang +9Remote Sensing VQAVideo QA

    Lehigh University · University of Southern California · Qualcomm AI Research

  6. PerSeM: Persistent Semantic Memory for Long-Horizon Open-Vocabulary UAV Mapping

    Sep 17, 2026Saurbh Singh Jamwal, Ganesh RamakrishnanOpen-Vocabulary 3D SegmentationSemantic Occupancy Mapping

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  7. Understanding Dynamic Scenes at Gigapixel Scale: Wide-Area Spatio-Temporal Perception from UAVs

    Sep 16, 2026Yuhang Zhu, Meiyi Zhu, Yunkai Dang +4Remote SensingUAV Remote Sensing

    Nanjing University

  8. When Ground-Truth Fidelity Matters: An Orchestrated UAS Framework for Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus Detection Using Vision Transformers and Machine Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Dewi Endah Kharismawati, Sandeep Dhakal, Courtney E. McCusker +3Plant Disease ClassificationLearning with Noisy Labels

    Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA · Corn, Soybean and Wheat Quality Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster, OH, 44691, USA

  9. TileNet: Tile-Based CNN-SVM Architecture for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems Inspection of Flat Roofs

    Sep 14, 2026Samuel Dunthorne, Hashim A. HashimBuilding Damage AssessmentUAV Remote Sensing

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, K1S-5B6, Canada

  10. Aligned Radiometric RGB-Thermal Fusion for UAV Facade Anomaly Screening

    Sep 14, 2026Yuan Yang, Shulei Li, Haobo LiangThermal ImagingInfrared-Visible Image Fusion

    Hong Kong Center for Construction Robotics, Hong Kong SAR, China

  11. RGB-to-IR image translation for infrared vehicle detection in unseen UAV domains

    Sep 2, 2026Thijs A. Eker, Ella P. Fokkinga, Jan Erik van Woerden +4Infrared Object DetectionSynthetic Data Generation

    TNO - Intelligent Imaging, Oude Waalsdorperweg 63, the Hague, the Netherlands

  12. UAV Thermal Imagery for Inert Ordnance Screening: Multi Campaign Dataset Development,Object Detection, and Practical Recommendations

    Sep 1, 2026Chad Melton, PhD., Annabelle KeltonThermal ImagingObject Detection

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geospatial Science and Human Security Division, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.

  13. Multimodal RGB-Infrared Combination for UAV-Based Wildfire Segmentation: A Comparative Study on FLAME3

    Sep 1, 2026Matheus F. Kovaleski, Luís Garrote, Cristiano Premebida +2Image SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Institute of Systems and Robotics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal · University of Coimbra, CEMMPRE, ARISE, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polo II, PT-3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal

  14. CedarCypress3D: an annotated UAV-LiDAR dataset of individual trees in planted cedar and cypress forests

    Aug 31, 2026Katsuto Shimizu, Fumiaki Kitahara, Tomohiro Nishizono +8Instance Segmentation3D Semantic Segmentation

    Shikoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute · 1Shikoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 2-915 Asakuranishi, Kochi, Kochi 780-8077, Japan · Department of Forest Management, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute +9

  15. OGG-FR: Orthogonal Gradient Gaming and Frequency Rectification for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Infrared Image Super-Resolution

    Aug 10, 2026Yongsong Huang, Qingzhong Wang, Xiaofeng Liu +3Remote Sensing Image Super-ResolutionMulti-Objective Optimization

    Tohoku University · Amazon Web Services · Yale University

  16. Integrating spectral and morphological plant features with decision-tree models for early-season cotton biomass and nitrogen status estimation from multi-year UAV data

    Aug 7, 2026Vaishali Swaminathan, Nithya Rajan, J Alex Thomasson +4Agricultural Remote SensingUAV Remote Sensing

    Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. · Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA. · Depart of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. +3

  17. UAV-Based Environmental Monitoring of Rip-Current Indicators Using Wavelet-Derived Texture Features

    Aug 3, 2026Yonatan Ben Avraham, Baruch Binyaminov, Yehudit ApersteinWavelet MethodsUAV Remote Sensing

    1Intelligent Systems, Afeka Academic College of Engineering, Tel Aviv 6998812, Israel

  18. UAV3DCrop: Benchmarking 3D Reconstruction in Repeated Multi-Angle UAV Crop Surveys

    Aug 3, 2026Junxiong Zhou, Xuechen Li, Chonghao Qiu +11Agricultural Remote Sensing3D Reconstruction

    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA · University of Pittsburgh, USA · Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany +3

  19. Impact of Dataset Composition on Embedded Real-Time UAV Wildfire Detection Using Compact YOLO Models

    Aug 1, 2026Eduardo de los Santos, Andre S. Kelbouscas, Ricardo B. Grando +1Synthetic Data AugmentationWildfire Detection

    Robotics and AI Lab, Technological University of Uruguay, Rivera, Uruguay

  20. ReLATE: Reliability-Guided Evidence Fusion for Robust UAV--Satellite cross-view Geo-Localization

    Jul 28, 2026Haochen Jiang, Jialei Pan, Yuzhe Sun +4Image Corruption RobustnessCross-View Geo-Localization

    School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China · National Key Laboratory of Radar Detection and Sensing, Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom

  21. Human-in-the-Loop Signature Bootstrapping for UAV Hyperspectral PFM-1 Mine Detection

    Jul 28, 2026Sagar Lekhak, Prasanna Reddy Pulakurthi, Emmett J. IentilucciHuman-in-the-Loop AnnotationHyperspectral Imaging

    Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA

  22. ObliCity: A Benchmark and Baseline for Roof-to-Ground Projection Displacement Correction

    Jul 28, 2026Kai Li, Yupeng Deng, Ligao Deng +6Remote SensingRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 East Yanqi Lake Road, Beijing, 100049, China · cAerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Beijing, 101408, China · dDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, 999077, China +1

  23. Distributed Coordination for Resilient Multi-UAV Remote Sensing: A Photovoltaic Inspection Case Study

    Jul 27, 2026Guillermo GP-Lenza, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Martin Molina +1Multi-Robot CoordinationMulti-Robot Task Allocation

    Centre for Automation and Robotics C.A.R, (UPM-CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain · Department of Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,, Spain · Automation and Robotics Group (ARG-SnT), University of Luxembourg - SnT, Luxembourg

  24. SkyVLaM: Multimodal Large Language Model for UAV Video Understanding in Remote Sensing

    Jul 19, 2026Kaiwen Jing, Ruixu Jia, Bingyao Li +3Referring Video Object SegmentationMultimodal Large Language Models

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · Peking University, Beijing, China · Beijing Wuzi University, Beijing, China

  25. AE-UAV: An Air-to-Air Event-Based UAV Tracking Benchmark and a Real-Time Frequency-Domain Tracker

    Jul 16, 2026Zixin Jiang, Bing He, Chaoran Xiong +3Event-Based VisionVisual Object Tracking

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi’an 710025, China · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Navigation and Location Based Services, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · State Key Laboratory of Submarine Geoscience, School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  26. Self-supervised training for high-resolution close-range multispectral remote sensing imagery

    Jul 13, 2026Leon-Friedrich Thomas, Mikael Änäkkälä, Antti LajunenAgricultural Image AnalysisRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    University of Helsinki, Department of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 28, Fi-00014 Helsinki, Finland · University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Sciences, P.O. Box 27, Fi-00014 Helsinki, Finland

  27. Benchmarking UAV-based Vehicle Re-Identification under Simulated Weather Conditions

    Jul 12, 2026Vu Minh Tran, Khang NguyenDistribution Shift RobustnessUAV Remote Sensing

    University of Information Technology Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  28. PhenoEmbed: Self-Supervised Multispectral UAV Time-Series Embeddings for Individual Tree Crown Phenology

    Jul 11, 2026Taimur KhanPlant PhenotypingSelf-Supervised Time Series Representation Learning

    Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120 Halle, Germany

  29. Differential Analysis of Multispectral Images for Terrain Identification

    Jul 10, 2026Omar Kashmar, Hemendra Arya, Fulvio MastrogiovanniRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingRobotic Perception

    University of Genoa, Italy · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

  30. UniRef-UAV: A Multimodal Benchmark for Universal Referring in UAV Imagery

    Jul 9, 2026Haibin Tian, Huichao Xie, Xuelin Qian +3Multimodal GroundingMultimodal Model Evaluation

    School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China · College of Missile Engineering, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi’an 710038, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China

  31. EcoVision: AI-Powered Drone Imaging for Salt Marsh Vegetation Monitoring and Dominance Mapping

    Jul 7, 2026Innocent Onyenonachi, Peter J. Lawerance, Nadia KanwalRemote Sensing Image SegmentationRemote Sensing

    School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Keele University, ST5 3BG, United Kingdom · School of Life Science, Keele University, ST5 3BG, United Kingdom

  32. AerialMetric: Benchmarking and Adapting UAV Monocular Metric Depth Estimation in the Real World

    Jun 29, 2026Zhongqiang Song, Guanying Chen, Yuqi Zhang +6Metric Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen Campus · 1Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen Campus · FNii–Shenzhen +5

  33. FlameVQA: A Physically-Grounded UAV Wildfire VQA Benchmark with Radiometric Thermal Supervision

    Jun 25, 2026Mobin Habibpour, John Spodnik, Niloufar Alipour Talemi +1VLM EvaluationVisual Question Answering

    Clemson University · Clemson, SC, USA

  34. A UAV-Mounted Sensor Network for Close-Range Inspection of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades

    Jun 19, 2026Jost Wittmann, Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan, Nils Kömpe +1Industrial InspectionUAV Remote Sensing

    Department of Computer Science XVII: Robotics Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg Würzburg, Germany · Research and Development SubseaScanning AS Stavanger, Norway · Elektronik-Entwicklung Oktopus GmbH Kiel, Germany

  35. Towards UAV Image Dehazing: A UAV Atmospheric Scattering Model, Benchmark, and Geometry-Aware Deep Unfolding Network

    Jun 15, 2026Wenxuan Fang, Jiangwei Weng, Yu Zheng +5Image RestorationRemote Sensing Benchmarks

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology

  36. A UAV-Based Multi-Modal Vision System for Automated Sideslope Deformation Monitoring and Hazard Detection

    Jun 13, 2026Jingfeng Zhang, Yi Li, Xianchong Liang +1Remote Sensing Change DetectionUAV Remote Sensing

    South China Normal University, Foshan, Guangdong, China

  37. UGV-Conditioned Multi-UAV Informative Planning on a Shared Exposure Belief

    Jun 10, 2026Lars Oerlemans, Moji Shi, Marija PopovicInformative Path PlanningSafe Robot Navigation

    MAVLab, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands

  38. Multi-Angular Reflectance Anisotropy Observed from UAV Multispectral Imagery

    Jun 9, 2026Zhenqiang Qin, Chenguang Dai, Min Wang +1Remote SensingUAV Remote Sensing

    Geospatial Information College Information Engineering University Zhengzhou, China

  39. Illumination-Invariant Anomaly Detection for Sub-Canopy UAV Multispectral Point Clouds

    Jun 8, 2026Likun Chen, Yanfeng Gu, Xian LiSparse RecoveryUnsupervised Anomaly Detection

    School of Electronics and Information Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin, China

  40. USU-Corn-WeedDB: A UAV RGB Image Dataset for Multi-Species Weed Detection in Forage Corn

    Jun 4, 2026Utsav Bhandari, Saroj Burlakoti, Rhonda Miller +3Agricultural Image AnalysisWeed Detection

    Department of Applied Sciences, Technology, and Education, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA · Department of Plants, Soils & Climate, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA

  41. Comparison of Deep Learning Frameworks For Rice Disease Mapping From UAV Multispectral Imaging

    Jun 4, 2026Yadav Raj Ghimire, Jagrati Talreja, Tewodros Syum Gebre +3Image SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.

  42. Attention-Guided Autoencoder Fusion for Insulator Defect Detection Using UAV Transmission-Line Imaging

    Jun 3, 2026Malak Allam, Khaled Shaban, Ali HamdiIndustrial InspectionObject Detection

    Faculty of Computer Science MSA University Giza, Egypt · Department of Computer Science and Engineering Qatar University Doha, Qatar

  43. Towards Drone-based Mapping of Volcanic Gases using Gas Tomography

    May 26, 2026Marius Schaab, Niklas Karbach, Antonia Rabe +5Computed TomographyUAV Remote Sensing

    School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany · Department of Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University (JGU), Germany · Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

  44. LER-YOLO: Reliability-Aware Expert Routing for Misaligned RGB-Infrared UAV Detection

    May 20, 2026Liming Hou, Yueping Peng, Hexiang Hao +6Mixture of ExpertsMultispectral Object Detection

    Engineering University of PAP, Xi’an 710086, China · Unit Command Department, Officers College of PAP, Chengdu 610213, China

  45. SkySeg: Collaborative Onboard Semantic Segmentation with Heterogeneous UAVs in the Wild

    May 20, 2026Anqi Lu, Yun Cheng, Youbing Hu +3Test-Time AdaptationMulti-Robot Systems

    Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin, China · ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland · Huawei Cloud Algorithm Innovation Lab Be, China

  46. Highly Detailed and Generalizable Broadleaf Tree Crown Instance Segmentation from UAV Imagery

    May 15, 2026Mitsutaka Nakada, Takahiko Ikebata, Kengo Ikebata +7Image SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    DeepForest Technologies Co., Ltd · DeepForest Technologies Co., Ltd., Kyoto 600-8006, Japan · YM Lab +9

  47. ELDOR: A Dataset and Benchmark for Illegal Gold Mining in the Amazon Rainforest

    May 14, 2026Kangning Cui, Surendra Bohara, Suraj Prasai +12Remote Sensing Image SegmentationRemote Sensing

    Wake Forest University · City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan) · Duke University +7

  48. Multimodal Object Detection Under Sparse Forest-Canopy Occlusion

    May 14, 2026Nitik Jain, Mangal KothariInfrared-Visible Image FusionObject Detection

    Robotics & AI, Johns Hopkins University, USA. This research was carried out entirely while the author was with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur. · This research was carried out entirely while the author was with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur. · Senior Principal Flight Control Engineer, ADASI, EDGE Group, Abu Dhabi, UAE. This research was carried out entirely while the author was with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

  49. Mobile Traffic Camera Calibration from Road Geometry for UAV-Based Traffic Surveillance

    May 12, 2026Alexey Popov, Natalia Trukhina, Vadim VashkelisBird's-Eye-View RepresentationUAV Remote Sensing

    Embedded Intelligence Lab

  50. UAV as Urban Construction Change Monitor: A New Benchmark and Change Captioning Model

    May 6, 2026Yupeng Gao, Tianyu Li, Guoqing Wang +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Image Change Captioning

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

  51. Graph-based Semantic Calibration Network for Unaligned UAV RGBT Image Semantic Segmentation and A Large-scale Benchmark

    Apr 29, 2026Fangqiang Fan, Zhicheng Zhao, Xiaoliang Ma +2Cross-Modal AlignmentGraph Reasoning

    Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing & Signal Processing (Anhui University), Ministry of Education, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Multimodal Cognitive Computation, School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China · GEOVIS Earth Technology Co., Ltd., Hefei 230088, China +1

  52. Resource-Constrained UAV-Based Weed Detection for Site-Specific Management on Edge Devices

    Apr 25, 2026Linyuan Wang, Haibo Yao, Te-Ming Tseng +4Agricultural Remote SensingWeed Detection

    Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA · USDA-ARS, Genetics and Sustainable Agriculture Research Unit, Mississippi State, MS, USA · Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA +2

  53. Understanding Representation Gaps Across Scales in Tropical Tree Species Classification from Drone Imagery

    Apr 24, 2026Sulagna Saha, Arthur Ouaknine, Etienne Laliberté +7Representation LearningTree Species Classification

    Mila – Quebec AI Institute · McGill University · Université de Montréal +4

  54. PLAS-Net: Pixel-Level Area Segmentation for UAV-Based Beach Litter Monitoring

    Apr 23, 2026Yongying Liu, Jiaqi Wang, Jian Song +6Image SegmentationInstance Segmentation

    Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan · Department of Urban Informatics, Shenzhen University, China

  55. Online CS-based SAR Edge-Mapping

    Apr 21, 2026Conor Flynn, Radoslav Ivanov, Birsen YaziciRemote SensingCompressed Sensing

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

  56. PixDLM: A Dual-Path Multimodal Language Model for UAV Reasoning Segmentation

    Apr 17, 2026Shuyan Ke, Yifan Mei, Changli Wu +4Image SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, Xiamen University, 361005, P.R. China · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  57. Estimating Individual Tree Height and Species from UAV Imagery

    Mar 24, 2026Jannik Endres, Etienne Laliberté, David Rolnick +1Vision Foundation ModelsTree Species Classification

    Mila – Quebec AI Institute · Université de Montréal · McGill University

  58. A UAV-Based Multispectral and RGB Dataset for Multi-Stage Paddy Crop Monitoring in Indian Agricultural Fields

    Jan 3, 2026Adari Rama Sukanya, Puvvula Roopesh Naga Sri Sai, Bodduru Neshika +1Agricultural Remote SensingUAV Remote Sensing

    IIT Tirupati

  59. FLAME 3 Dataset: Unleashing the Power of Radiometric Thermal UAV Imagery for Wildfire Management

    Dec 3, 2024Bryce Hopkins, Leo ONeill, Michael Marinaccio +7Thermal ImagingRemote Sensing

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA · Pacific Southwest Research Station, U.S. Forest Services, Redding, CA USA · School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA +3