The field of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research is rapidly advancing, with a focus on improving object detection and landing technology. Researchers are exploring new architectures and techniques to enhance the accuracy and robustness of UAV object detection, including the use of multimodal fusion, deformable token fusion, and high-frequency semantic networks. Additionally, there is a growing interest in developing more efficient and reliable landing systems, including vision-based models and end-to-end detection transformers. These innovations have the potential to significantly improve the safety and effectiveness of UAV operations. Noteworthy papers in this area include AeroLite-MDNet, which proposes a lightweight multi-task deviation detection network for UAV landing, and HEGS-DETR, which introduces a comprehensively enhanced detection transformer framework for UAV object detection. UAVD-Mamba is also notable for its deformable token fusion vision mamba for multimodal UAV detection.
UAV Object Detection and Landing Technology
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AeroLite-MDNet: Lightweight Multi-task Deviation Detection Network for UAV Landing
End-to-End RGB-IR Joint Image Compression With Channel-wise Cross-modality Entropy Model
From Ground to Air: Noise Robustness in Vision Transformers and CNNs for Event-Based Vehicle Classification with Potential UAV Applications
DGE-YOLO: Dual-Branch Gathering and Attention for Accurate UAV Object Detection
Event-based Tiny Object Detection: A Benchmark Dataset and Baseline
High-Frequency Semantics and Geometric Priors for End-to-End Detection Transformers in Challenging UAV Imagery
UAVD-Mamba: Deformable Token Fusion Vision Mamba for Multimodal UAV Detection