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  1. Gaze-DETR: Top-Down Guidance Through Priority Maps for Infrared Weak-Small UAV Detection with DETR

    Jul 21, 2026Nian Liu, Yuxin Yang, Shubo Lin +6Infrared Small Target DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

  2. NGPS: GPS-Denied Aerial Geo-Localization and 2.5D Reconstruction via Deep Satellite Image Matching and Multi-Rate Sensor Fusion

    Jul 21, 2026Sanket SharmaDrone-View Geo-LocalizationCross-View Geo-Localization

  3. CGMap: A Geospatially Aware Deep Learning Framework for Crop Gap Mapping Using UAV

    Jul 21, 2026Karan Sharma, Rajiv Ranjan, Dinesh Kumar +1Object DetectionMap

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

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

  5. SkyEV: RGB-Event UAV detection and tracking dataset and baseline

    Jul 21, 2026Jakub Mandula, Sebastian Heusinger, Julian Moosmann +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  6. Intelligent Multi-UAV Navigation in ITNTNs: A Hierarchical LLM Approach

    Jul 21, 2026Zijiang Yan, Hao Zhou, Wael Jaafar +4Multi-Uav SystemsUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

  7. Engineering Trustworthy Agentic AI for Critical Systems

    Jul 20, 2026Omar Al-Refai, Ibrahim Shahbaz, Adam Ali Husseinat +3Trustworthy Artificial IntelligenceAgentic Systems

  8. RT-SHCUA: Real-Time Self-Hosted Computer-Use Agent for UAV Control

    Jul 20, 2026Di Lu, Bo Zhang, Xiyuan Li +5Uncrewed Aerial VehiclesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  9. Polar Coordinate-based Differential Evolution for Moving Target Search Using Vision Sensor on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Jul 20, 2026Thu Hang Khuat, Duy-Nam Bui, Thuy Ngan Duong +1Unmanned Aerial VehiclesVision Sensors

  10. Attention from Above: A Multimodal Model for Drone-Based Object Localization

    Jul 20, 2026Hyun-Ki JungUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection

  11. Linear Stability Analysis of an INDI Pitch-Rate Controller under Model Mismatch for a Tilt-Rotor VTOL UAV

    Jul 17, 2026Lorenzo Schenk, Guillaume Ducard, Christopher OnderQuadrotor ControlUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  12. Compact convolutional neural networks for AI-based drone detection system

    Jul 17, 2026Gábor Farkas, Gábor Fazekas, Karakai Patrik +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionConvolutional Neural Networks

  13. Knowing the Self, Understanding the World: A Dual-Cognition Benchmark for UAV Spatio-temporal Reasoning with MLLMs

    Jul 17, 2026Like Liu, Zhengzheng Xu, Haitao He +3Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrackingLarge Vision Language Models

  14. BCG-Former: Toward Pareto-Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification via Band-Contextual Gating

    Jul 17, 2026Gaurav Sharma, Eungjoo LeeHyperspectral Image ClassificationHybrid Transformer

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

    Jul 16, 2026Ruilong Ren, Songsheng Cheng, Yunpeng Zhou +9Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrackingUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  16. AeroAct: Action-Centered World-Action Models for Language-Conditioned Quadrotor Flight

    Jul 16, 2026Xinhong Zhang, Qiyuan Zhu, Yubo Huang +8Aerial Vision-Language NavigationAerotrack

  17. 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 TrackingUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

  18. Task-Oriented Sensing and Covert Transmissions for Collaborative Multi-AUV Systems

    Jul 15, 2026Xueyao Zhang, Chenyang Yan, Bo Yang +6Autonomous Underwater VehiclesMulti-Uav Systems

  19. Dynamical Vehicle Orienteering Problem for Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Jul 15, 2026František Nekovář, Matej Novosad, Martin Saska +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesTrajectory Optimization

  20. Distributionally Robust and Safe Imitation Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Ahmed Aboudonia, Naira HovakimyanImitation LearningAdaptive Controller

  21. Autonomous Tracking and Terminal Guidance of Moving Targets for Fixed-Wing UAVs

    Jul 14, 2026Wei-Hao Liou, Teng-Hu ChengUnmanned Aerial VehiclesVisual Servoing

  22. Improving Autonomous Nano-drones Performance via Automated End-to-End Optimization and Deployment of DNNs

    Jul 14, 2026Vlad Niculescu, Lorenzo Lamberti, Francesco Conti +2Autonomous Drone NavigationUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

  23. Environment Parameter Gradient Theorem for Policy-Environment Co-Design in Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 14, 2026Amber SrivastavaValue FunctionsGradient Flow

  24. Edge-Aware Thermal Infrared UAV Swarm Tracking

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

  25. Self in Space: Benchmarking Self-Awareness and Spatial Cognition in UAV Embodied Intelligence

    Jul 14, 2026Zhishan Zou, Guoyan Sun, Zhiwei Wei +4Embodied Spatial IntelligenceAerial Vision-Language Navigation

  26. MIRA: A Modular Open-Source Micro-UAV for Indoor Research

    Jul 13, 2026Lucas K. de Oliveira, Felipe A. G. Tommaselli, João Aires Marsicano +4Uncrewed Aerial VehiclesIndoor Environments

  27. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for C-V2X RAT Selection

    Jul 13, 2026Moritz Schaffenroth, Uwe Kölbel, Heike Lepke +2V2XMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  28. A Model for Mediating Multi-Modal Human Intent into Safe Maneuvers for UAVs

    Jul 13, 2026Sofia Nelson, Dalal Alrajeh, Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno +1Multi-Uav SystemsUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  29. Coordinated Incremental Trajectory Tracking of a Tailsitter Drone

    Jul 13, 2026Evangelos Ntouros, Ewoud J. J. SmeurUncrewed Aerial VehiclesDrone

  30. Parse, Search, and Confirmation: Training-Free Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Structured Spatial Memory

    Jul 13, 2026Yu Qi, Hongyu Li, Shaofei Huang +6Aerial Vision-Language NavigationAutonomous Drone Navigation

  31. From Sketch Prior to Trajectories: A Mission-Oriented Coordinated Navigation Framework for Indoor UAV Swarm

    Jul 13, 2026Xinhang Xu, Ruiyang Liu, Haotian Jin +4Multi-Uav SystemsUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

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

    Jul 13, 2026Baofeng Jia, Xiaoyu Chen, Jingyuan Zhang +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Tracking

  33. End-to-End Real-Time Drone-Based Person Detection Framework Using Deep Learning

    Jul 12, 2026Payel Sarmah, Ayush Ranjan, Piyush Kaushik Bhattacharyya +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionYolov8-Nano Model

  34. Runtime Safety Filtering for Learned Small UAS Separation Policies under GNSS Degradation

    Jul 10, 2026Alex Zongo, Peng WeiSafety FiltersUncrewed Aerial Vehicles

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

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

  36. PanoWorld: Real-World Panoramic Generation

    Jul 10, 2026Haoyuan Li, Dizhe Zhang, Yuemei Zhou +7Panoramic ImagesVideo World Models

  37. Differential Analysis of Multispectral Images for Terrain Identification

    Jul 10, 2026Omar Kashmar, Hemendra Arya, Fulvio MastrogiovanniHyperspectral ImagingLight Detection And Ranging

  38. RASR: Range-Aware Scale Recovery for Metric UAV Navigation

    Jul 10, 2026Hongtao Liang, Xinyu Shao, Chenxu Wang +5Autonomous Drone NavigationGlobal Navigation Satellite System

  39. Toward Active Object Detection for UAVs in the Wild: A Large-Scale Dataset, Benchmark and Method

    Jul 10, 2026Tianpeng Liu, Xinhua Jiang, Li Liu +4Unmanned Aerial VehiclesObject Detection

  40. FSD-VLN: Fast-Slow Dual-System Modeling for Aerial Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 9, 2026Xueke Zhu, Qingyan Meng, Liutao Yu +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  41. UAV-OVVIS: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Also Need Open-Vocabulary Video Instance Segmentation

    Jul 9, 2026Mingyu Dou, Shi Qiu, Ming Hu +2Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionVideo Object Segmentation

  42. 3D Reconstruction of deciduous Trees using low-cost UAV- and Crane-based Photogrammetry for Monitoring Shoot Elongation across entire Canopies

    Jul 8, 2026Stephan Nebiker, Micha Tschanz, Nando Amport +1CanopyTrees

  43. SASGeo: Stability-Aware Semantic Map Localization for GNSS-Denied UAVs -- A Framework and Synthetic Proof of Concept

    Jul 7, 2026Natalia Trukhina, Vadim VashkelisDrone-View Geo-LocalizationSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

  44. Towards Reliable Aerial Ground Vehicle Collaboration: An Integrated Planning and Autonomy Framework for Field Deployment

    Jul 7, 2026Md Safwan Mondal, Luca Russo, James D. Humann +2Multi-Uav SystemsUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectories

  45. Dynamic Airspace Management for UAVs in Evolving Urban Environments: Collaborative Coordination and Human Safety

    Jul 6, 2026Lin Sun, Yuhang Wang, Fan Meng Hong +3Multi-Uav SystemsUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

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

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

  47. Last-Meter Precision Navigation for UAVs: A Diffusion-Refined Aerial Visual Servoing Approach

    Jul 5, 2026Yaxuan Li, Jiarui Zeng, Shaofei Huang +1Visual ServoingUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  48. FLOAT Drone for Physical Interaction: Lateral Airflow Reduction, Wrench Modeling, and Adaptive Control

    Jul 5, 2026Junxiao Lin, Kehan Zhou, Shuhang Ji +4Aerial ManipulationDrone

  49. FRFDet: Efficient UAV Small Object Detection with Symmetric Sampling and Scalable Fusion

    Jul 5, 2026Yunzhong Si, Huiying Xu, Xinzhong Zhu +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionAerial Dataset

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

    Jul 4, 2026Octavian Gîngu, Stelian SpînuUncrewed Aerial VehiclesVisual-Inertial Systems

  51. Exploring SAM Supervision for Fine-Grained UAV Target Segmentation under Data Scarcity

    Jul 4, 2026Le-Anh TranPseudo-LabelingSegment Anything Model

  52. Autonomous UAV Route Planning for Coverage Maximization in Environmental Monitoring: A Systematic Literature Review

    Jul 3, 2026Sebastian Jouannet-Contreras, Carola Figueroa-FloresUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesCoverage Path Planning

  53. iVISION-2DCD: A Long-Term Change Detection Dataset for Large-Scale Outdoor Construction Monitoring

    Jul 3, 2026Dayou Mao, Yuchen Lin, Ashkan Ebadi +3Aerial DatasetChange Detection

  54. Exp2VLA: Enabling Vision-Language-Action for Drone Navigation from Expert Demonstrations

    Jul 3, 2026Van Huyen Dang, Kabilesh Rajendran, Erdi Sayar +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsAutonomous Drone Navigation

  55. Real-Time Visual Intelligence on Low-Cost UAVs: A Modular Approach for Tracking, Scanning, and Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Andrei-Marian Ungureanu, Stelian SpînuDroneUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  56. NEUROSYMLAND: Neuro-Symbolic Landing-Site Assessment for Robust and Edge-Deployable UAV Autonomy

    Jul 2, 2026Weixian Qian, Tianyi Yang, Sebastian Schroder +5Uncrewed Aerial VehiclesNeuro-Symbolic Framework

  57. Sparse-Aware Vector Quantization for Bandwidth-Efficient Collaborative 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction

    Jul 2, 2026Feng Li, Chaokun Zhang, Gong Chen3D Semantic Occupancy PredictionCollaborative Perception

  58. Lightweight Safe Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End UAV Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Shenghui Zhang, YuXuan Gao, Songwei Zhao +3Autonomous Drone NavigationDeep Reinforcement Learning

  59. How Much Do RF Drone Benchmarks Overstate? A Controlled Study and Theory of Data Leakage in UAV Signal Identification

    Jul 1, 2026David ShulmanUnmanned Aerial Vehicle DetectionDrone

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

    Jul 1, 2026Minxing Sun, Yao MaoUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrackingMulti-Object Tracking