# DroneVis: Versatile Computer Vision Library for Drones

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00447 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.00447/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 22 of its 45 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 1 Jun 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 22 of 22)

- [Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1405.0312/) (2014)
- [Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1506.01497/) (2015)
- [Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.03144/) (2016)
- [You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1506.02640/) (2015)
- [SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.02325/) (2015)
- [Fast R-CNN](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1504.08083/) (2015)
- [Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1311.2524/) (2013)
- [The Kinetics Human Action Video Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.06950/) (2017)
- [SlowFast Networks for Video Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.03982/) (2018)
- [ViViT: A Video Vision Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.15691/) (2021)
- [VideoMAE: Masked Autoencoders are Data-Efficient Learners for Self-Supervised Video Pre-Training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.12602/) (2022)
- [ByteTrack: Multi-Object Tracking by Associating Every Detection Box](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.06864/) (2021)
- [Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1406.4729/) (2014)
- [BoT-SORT: Robust Associations Multi-Pedestrian Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.14651/) (2022)
- [Scaled-YOLOv4: Scaling Cross Stage Partial Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.08036/) (2020)
- [MediaPipe Hands: On-device Real-time Hand Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.10214/) (2020)
- [BlazePose: On-device Real-time Body Pose tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.10204/) (2020)
- [YOLOP: You Only Look Once for Panoptic Driving Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.11250/) (2021)
- [BlazeFace: Sub-millisecond Neural Face Detection on Mobile GPUs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.05047/) (2019)
- [Global-Local Path Networks for Monocular Depth Estimation with Vertical CutDepth](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.07436/) (2022)
- [Video Object Segmentation and Tracking: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.09172/) (2019)
- [CNN-based Cascaded Multi-task Learning of High-level Prior and Density Estimation for Crowd Counting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.09605/) (2017)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Deep Learning Perspective of Scene Understanding in Autonomous Robots](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.14020/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper introduces DroneVis, a novel library designed to automate computer vision algorithms on Parrot drones. DroneVis offers a versatile set of features and provides a diverse range of computer vision tasks along with a variety of models to choose from. Implemented in Python, the library adheres to high-quality code standards, facilitating effortless customization and feature expansion according to user requirements. In addition, comprehensive documentation is provided, encompassing usage guidelines and illustrative use cases. Our documentation, code, and examples are available in https://github.com/ahmedheakl/drone-vis.