On-Board Small-Scale Object Detection for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Object detection is a critical task that becomes difficult when dealing with onboard detection using aerial images and computer vision technique. The main challenges with aerial images are small target sizes, low resolution, occlusion, attitude, and scale variations, which affect the performance of...

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Published in:	Drones
Main Authors:	Zubair Saeed, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Rehan Ahmed, Sergio A. Velastin, Serestina Viriri
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2023-05-01
Subjects:	object detection computer vision modified CenterNet VisDrone SSD AU-AIR
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/7/5/310

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