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  1. Online Planning for Sparse Ground Target Search from a High-Altitude UAV under Partial Observability

    Oct 1, 2026Ashik E Rasul, Hyung-Jin YoonUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Tennessee Technological University Cookeville, USA

  2. SBMVTrack: Spike-Budgeted Multi-View Learning for Power-Efficient UAV Tracking

    Sep 21, 2026Pengzhi Zhong, Jiwei Mo, Haolun Li +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionMulti-Object Tracking

    College of Computer Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China · School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

  3. Beyond Direct Sensing: Harnessing Indirect Observations from Third-Party Sensors in Vehicle Tracking

    Sep 16, 2026Gaofeng Dong, Vamsi Eyunni, Pragya Sharma +2Multi-Object TrackingAutomotive Detection

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA

  4. EECTracker: Swarm Motion Prior-Guided Feature Compensation for Airborne Optical UAV Swarm Tracking

    Sep 14, 2026Zhaochen Chu, Tao Song, Ren Jin +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    China-UAE Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Intelligent Unmanned Systems, School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

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

    Sep 14, 2026Samuel Dunthorne, Hashim A. HashimUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionDeep Learning Framework

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

  6. 3D Euler-Angle Orientation Control for Two-Ray Fading Mitigation in Maritime Air-to-Sea Communications

    Sep 11, 2026Mohammed Bajja, Abdoul Karim A. H. Saliah, Hajar El Hammouti +2Reconfigurable Intelligent SurfacesMaritime Navigation

    Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco · Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico S.p.A., Milan, Italy, and Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

  7. EgoSIS: From Factorized Visual Ego-Transitions to Motion-Canonical Spatial Evidence for UAV Reasoning

    Sep 8, 2026Jingpu Yang, Fengxian Ji, Mingxuan Cui +4Motion-Based PerceptionFine-Grained Video Understanding

    Beihang University, Beijing, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China · Northeastern University, Shenyang, China +1

  8. Evidential Deep Learning for Multi-Modal Anti-UAV Detection

    Sep 1, 2026Dmitry Golovchits, Seyed Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari, Ali Mohammed Mansoor AlsahagDrone DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  9. JitTrack: Onboard Multi-Object Tracking Against Viewpoint Jitter for Agile UAVs

    Aug 11, 2026Yachun Shan, Feitian ZhangMulti-Object TrackingUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    The Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, Beijing, China

  10. Conversational versus Dashboard Explainable AI for UAV Intrusion Detection: An Empirical Study of Operator Trust and Reliance

    Aug 11, 2026Cong Chi Nguyen, Trang Mai Xuan, Vu-Duc Ngo +3Drone DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    A2I Lab, Phenikaa School of Computing, Phenikaa University, Hanoi, Vietnam · MobiFone HighTech Center, MobiFone Corporation, Hanoi, Vietnam · Business AI Lab, College of Technology, National Economics University, Vietnam

  11. Interpretable Fuzzy Inference for UAV Target Tracking Using Bounding-Box Geometry

    Aug 4, 2026Reza Ahmari, Ahmad Mohammadi, Vahid Hemmati +5Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionFuzzy

    Department of Computer Science, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E Market St, Greensboro, 27411, NC, USA. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 E Market St, Greensboro, 27411, NC, USA.

  12. When Efficiency Becomes Fragility: Exploiting Dynamic Routing Vulnerabilities in Adaptive UAV Tracking

    Aug 4, 2026Shaofeng Liang, Runwei Guan, Wenshuo Chen +7Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionMulti-Object Tracking

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Wuhan University · Institute of Deep Perception Technology (JITRI)

  13. Towards Autonomous Aircraft Surveillance from Nanosatellites through On-Board Inference and Generative Data Augmentation

    Jul 30, 2026Antonio Delgado-Rosa, David Muñoz-Valero, Enrique Adrian Villarrubia-Martin +1Multiple Satellite SystemsUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial y Aeroespacial de Toledo, Department of Technologies and Information Systems, Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha, Avenida Carlos III, s/n, Toledo, 45071, Spain · Escuela Superior de Informática, Department of Technologies and Information Systems, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Paseo de la Universidad 4, Ciudad Real, 13071, Spain

  14. Semantic-Aware Temporal Adaptation for UAV Anti-UAV Tracking

    Jul 29, 2026Xiaozhen Qiao, Da Zhang, Yubin Guo +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionMulti-Object Tracking

    School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom, P. R. China · Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

  15. Counterfactual Motion Reliability Learning for Robust UAV Tracking

    Jul 25, 2026Yuehai ChenUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionMulti-Object Tracking

    Faculty of Electronics and Information Engineering and the Institute for Low-Altitude Regulation, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

  16. DAPM: UAV Monocular Depth Estimation from Any Height, Pitch, Roll and FOV

    Jul 23, 2026Tong Ling, Wenhui Diao, Yingchao Feng +3Monocular Depth EstimationDepth Estimation

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, also with the School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, also with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, and also with the Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology (TCAT), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China, and also with the Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology (TCAT), Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  17. Cross-Modal UAV Object Tracking: State-Aware Representation Learning and A Unified Benchmark

    Jul 21, 2026Yun Xiao, Zhihong Hong, Jiandong Jin +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionMulti-Object Tracking

  18. CosFly-VLA: A Spatially Aware Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Tracking

    Jul 16, 2026Ruilong Ren, Songsheng Cheng, Yunpeng Zhou +9Aerial Vision-Language NavigationUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    1Autel Robotics · 2Northeast Normal University · 3Southern University of Science and Technology +2

  19. 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 +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionMulti-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

  20. Edge-Aware Thermal Infrared UAV Swarm Tracking

    Jul 14, 2026Yu-Hsi ChenUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    The University of Melbourne Parkville, Australia

  21. ASUMOT: Motion-Consistency-Based Asynchronous UAV Detection and Tracking with Event Cameras

    Jul 13, 2026Baofeng Jia, Xiaoyu Chen, Jingyuan Zhang +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionDrone Detection

    State key Laboratory of Extreme Environment Optoelectronic Dynamic Testing Technology and Instrument, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Visual Sensing and Intelligent Perception, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

  22. Banshee: Target Switch Attacks on Gimbal-Stabilized Visual Tracking Systems via Acoustic Injection

    Jul 10, 2026Jiarui Li, Joseph Brewington, Qingzhao Zhang +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionMulti-Object Tracking

    University of Michigan · The University of Arizona

  23. A Task-Driven Evaluation of UAV Detection and Tracking under Synthetic Fog

    Jul 6, 2026Amir Pouladi, Vesal Ahsani, Haijun Li +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionFog

    Center for Aerospace Research (CfAR), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada · Advanced Control and Intelligent Systems (ACIS) Lab, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

  24. TRISTAR: Triple-Signal Stair Recognition and Vision-Only Indoor Navigation for Search-and-Rescue Micro-UAVs

    Jul 4, 2026Octavian Gîngu, Stelian SpînuUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionAutonomous Navigation

    Military Technical Academy “Ferdinand I”, Bucharest, Romania

  25. Image-Domain Tilt Constrained Distributed Fusion for Maneuvering UAV Tracking with Multi-Camera Electro-Optical Observations

    Jul 1, 2026Minxing Sun, Yao MaoUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionInertial Measurement Units

    Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China · Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore · Shenzhen Astralldynamics Technology

  26. MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV

    Jun 29, 2026Louis Petit, Alexis Lussier DesbiensUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesPath Planning

    the Createk Design Lab, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada

  27. AUSLUN: A Fixed-Hover UAV--USV System for GNSS-Denied Maritime Search and Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Siyuan Yang, Zikai Jia, Hailiang Kuang +4Global Navigation Satellite SystemUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi 127788, United Arab Emirates

  28. FalconTrack: Photorealistic Auto-Labeled Perception and Physics-Aware Vision-Based Aerial Tracking

    Jun 29, 2026Yan Miao, Karteek Gandiboyina, Noah Giles +4Multi-Object TrackingAerial Dataset

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign · Toyota Motor North America R&D

  29. Spacecraft Fiducial Marker for Autonomous Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking

    Jun 25, 2026Ravi Kumar Thakur, Matouš Vrba, Martin SaskaSpacecraftUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Karlovo Namesti 13, 121 35 Prague 2, Czechia

  30. Autonomous Subsea Cable Search and Tracking with Graph-Optimised Priors and Visual Tracking

    Jun 22, 2026Ibrahim Fadhil Djauhari, Adrian Bodenmann, Samuel Simmons +6Autonomous Underwater VehiclesWiring

    Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute, University of Southampton, UK · Sonardyne International Ltd., Yately, UK · Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  31. AI-Empowered UAV-Assisted Backscatter Localization and ISAC for Zero-Energy IoT: A Comprehensive Survey

    Jun 22, 2026Ruhul Amin KhalilIntegrated Sensing And CommunicationUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    Engineering Requirements Unit (ERU), College of Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain 15551, UAE

  32. Ultra-Fusion: A Resilient Tightly-Coupled Multi-Sensor Fusion SLAM Framework under Sensor Degradation and Spatiotemporal Perturbation for Intelligent Transportation Systems

    Jun 19, 2026Yihong Tian, Junjie Zhang, Liuyang Li +3Multi-Sensor FusionSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

    Beijing Institute of Technology · Chongqing University · Sichuan University +2

  33. A Digital Twin Framework for Traffic-Aware UAV Pavement Monitoring in Open-Traffic Conditions

    Jun 17, 2026Yamil Uchani, Grace Luna, Edwin Salcedo +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionPavement

    Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Universidad Cat´olica Boliviana “San Pablo”, Bolivia · School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

  34. AIR-VLA+: Decoupling Movement and Manipulation via Cascaded Dual-Action Decoders with Asymmetric MoE for Aerial Robots

    Jun 11, 2026Jianli Sun, Bin Tian, Qiyao Zhang +6Aerial ManipulationAerial Robots

    The Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology · College of Automotive and Energy Engineering, Tongji University +2

  35. A Modular Dual-Camera Pipeline for Micro-Inspection Using Aerial Robots

    Jun 9, 2026S. H. Mirtajadini, N. Rublein, R. M. Ramakrishnan +3Aerial RobotsUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    Smart Mechatronics and Robotics (SMART) Research Group, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Enschede, The Netherlands · Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

  36. EventRadar: Long-Range Visual UAV Discovery through Spatiotemporal Event Sensing

    Jun 9, 2026Zhiting Zhou, Xingchen Liu, Xinglin Yu +5Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University · Sun Yat-sen University · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen +3

  37. SEArch: Optimistic Policy Selection Between Scene Noise and Drift for UAV Radar Search

    May 31, 2026Noor Khial, Naram Mhaisen, Loay Ismail +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    College of Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar · Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

  38. TAE: Target-aware enhancer for nighttime UAV tracking

    May 28, 2026Yanyan Chen, Ruigang Fu, Yu Song +1Low-Light Image EnhancementUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    College of Electrical Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology

  39. Dual-branch Distilled Transformer for Efficient Asymmetric UAV Tracking

    May 27, 2026Hongtao Yang, Bineng Zhong, Qihua Liang +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionMulti-Object Tracking

    Key Lab of Education Blockchain and Intelligent Technology, Ministry of Education, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, China · Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-Source Information Mining and Security, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541004, China · Nanjing University of Science and Technology +1

  40. A Camera-Cooperative ISAC Framework for Multimodal Non-Cooperative UAVs Sensing

    May 21, 2026Wenfeng Wu, Luping Xiang, Kun YangIntegrated Sensing And CommunicationMulti-Uav

    State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, China · Institute of Intelligent Networks and Communications (NINE) and School of Intelligent Software and Engineering, Nanjing University (Suzhou Campus), Suzhou, 215163, China

  41. Towards UAV Detection in the Real World: A New Multispectral Dataset UAVNet-MS and a New Method

    May 20, 2026Yihang Luo, Jun Chen, Chao Xiao +13Drone DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China · Aviation University of Air Force, China · Sun Yat-sen University, China

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

    May 20, 2026Liming Hou, Yueping Peng, Hexiang Hao +6Drone DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

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

  43. FlyMirage: A Fully Automated Generation Pipeline for Diverse and Scalable UAV Flight Data via Generative World Model

    May 19, 2026Jinhan Li, Xijie Huang, Weiqi Gai +9Aerial Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. · Differential Robotics, Hangzhou 311121, China.

  44. Aerial Inspection Behaviors via RL-based Quadrotor Control for Under-canopy Forest Environments

    May 19, 2026Fausto Mauricio Lagos Suarez, Akshit Saradagi, Vidya Sumathy +2QuadrotorReinforcement Learning Control

    Robotics and AI group, in the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering at Luleåa University of Technology, Sweden

  45. CosFly-Track: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Dataset for UAV Visual Tracking via Multi-Constraint Trajectory Optimization

    May 18, 2026Xiangyue Wang, Hanxuan Chen, Songsheng Cheng +7Aerial Vision-Language NavigationUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    Autel Robotics · Nanjing University · Peking University +2

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

    May 14, 2026Kangning Cui, Surendra Bohara, Suraj Prasai +12Remote Sensing Image SegmentationUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

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

  47. LMPath: Language-Mediated Priors and Path Generation for Aerial Exploration

    May 13, 2026Jonathan A. Diller, Fernando Cladera, Camillo J. Taylor +1Path PlanningUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania

  48. ASIP-Planner: Adaptive Planning for UAV Surface Inspection in Partially Known Indoor Environments

    May 11, 2026Hanyu Jin, Zhefan Xu, Haoyu Shen +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionPath Planning

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA

  49. Palm-sized Omnidirectional Vision-Based UAV Exploration with Sparse Topological Map Guidance

    May 8, 2026Zirui Wang, Xinjia Luo, Haotian Sun +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

  50. Monitoring autonomous persistent surveillance missions using invariance

    May 7, 2026Vladislav Nenchev, Prodromos SotiriadisPartial ObservabilityMobile Robots

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany.

  51. Robust Lightweight Crack Classification for Real-Time UAV Bridge Inspection

    Apr 30, 2026Wei Li, Haisheng Li, Weijie Li +3Drone DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    Bay Area Super Bridge Maintenance Technology Center, Guangdong Provincial Highway Construction Co., Ltd., Guangdong, China · Guangdong AIHISUN Technology Co., Ltd., Guangdong, China

  52. Optimal UGV-UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest Paths

    Apr 28, 2026Ninh Nguyen, Srinivas AkellaMulti-UavPath Planning

  53. Online CS-based SAR Edge-Mapping

    Apr 21, 2026Conor Flynn, Radoslav Ivanov, Birsen YaziciSynthetic Aperture RadarUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

  54. Autonomous UAV Pipeline Near-proximity Inspection via Disturbance-Aware Predictive Visual Servoing

    Apr 21, 2026Wen Li, Hui Wang, Jinya Su +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionVisual Servoing

    School of Automation, Key Laboratory of Measurement and Control of CSE, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom · Research Centre for Low Altitude Economy and the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  55. MotionScape: A Motion-Stratified UAV Video Benchmark for World Modeling and Future Video Generation

    Apr 9, 2026Zile Guo, Zhan Chen, Xiaoxuan Liu +5Unmanned Aerial VehiclesUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  56. FC-Vision: Real-Time Visibility-Aware Replanning for Occlusion-Free Aerial Target Structure Scanning in Unknown Environments

    Feb 14, 2026Chen Feng, Yang Xu, Shaojie ShenUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionOcclusion

    Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.

  57. Multi-Sensor Fusion for UAV Classification Based on Feature Maps of Image and Radar Data

    Oct 21, 2024Nikos Sakellariou, Antonios Lalas, Konstantinos Votis +1Multi-Sensor FusionDrone Detection

    Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Information Technologies Institute