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CloudTrack: Scalable UAV Tracking with Cloud Semantics

arXiv 2409.16111 ↗First posted 24 Sep 2024cs.RO cs.CVcited by 3

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Abstract (arXiv)

Nowadays, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are commonly used in search and rescue scenarios to gather information in the search area. The automatic identification of the person searched for in aerial footage could increase the autonomy of such systems, reduce the search time, and thus increase the missed person's chances of survival. In this paper, we present a novel approach to perform semantically conditioned open vocabulary object tracking that is specifically designed to cope with the limitations of UAV hardware. Our approach has several advantages. It can run with verbal descriptions of the missing person, e.g., the color of the shirt, it does not require dedicated training to execute the mission and can efficiently track a potentially moving person. Our experimental results demonstrate the versatility and efficacy of our approach.

Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 15 of its 28 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 24 Sep 2024.

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References · 15

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  1. 2023OVTrack: Open-Vocabulary Multiple Object Trackingcited by 53
  2. 2023Video OWL-ViT: Temporally-consistent open-world localization in videocited by 13
  3. 2023Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Tracking with Large Pre-Trained Modelscited by 11

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Citing papers per year: 2025: 2; 2026: 1.

3 papers.

  1. 2025UAVs Meet LLMs: Overviews and Perspectives Toward Agentic Low-Altitude Mobilitycited by 48
  2. 2025CHAI: Command Hijacking against embodied AIcited by 9
  3. 2026WildCross: A Cross-Modal Large Scale Benchmark for Place Recognition and Metric Depth Estimation in Natural Environmentscited by 5