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UAV sensors provide images and videos for on-line or off-line data processing for object localization, classification, and tracking due to the use of trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and artificial intelligence. However, quality of images acquired by UAV-based sensors is not always perfect due to many factors. One of them could be noise arising because of several reasons. Its presence, especially if noise is intensive, can make significantly worse the performance characteristics of CNN-based techniques of object localization and classification. We analyze such degradation for a set of eleven modern CNNs for additive white Gaussian noise model and study when (for what noise intensity and for what CNN) the performance reduction becomes essential and, thus, special means to improve it become desired. Representatives of two most popular families, namely the block matching 3-dimensional (BM3D) filter and DRUNet denoiser, are employed to enhance images under condition of a priori known noise properties. It is shown that, due to preliminary denoising, the CNN performance characteristics can be significantly improved up to almost the same level as for the noise-free images without CNN retraining. Performance is analyzed using several criteria typical for image denoising, object localization and classification. Examples of object localization and classification are presented demonstrating possible object missing due to noise. Computational efficiency is also taken into account. Using a large set of test data, it is demonstrated that: (1) the best results are usually provided for SSD Mobilenet V2 and VGG16 networks; (2) the performance characteristics for cases of applying BM3D filter and DRUNet denoiser are similar but the use of DRUNet is preferable since it provides slightly better results.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computation13100234","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,3]],"date-time":"2025-10-03T11:53:37Z","timestamp":1759492417000},"page":"234","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["UAV Image Denoising and Its Impact on Performance of Object Localization and Classification in UAV Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Rostyslav","family":"Tsekhmystro","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information-Communication Technologies, National Aerospace University \u201cKhAI\u201d, 61070 Kharkiv, Ukraine"},{"name":"Department of Design Information Technologies, National Aerospace University \u201cKhAI\u201d, 61070 Kharkiv, Ukraine"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1443-9685","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vladimir","family":"Lukin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information-Communication Technologies, National Aerospace University \u201cKhAI\u201d, 61070 Kharkiv, Ukraine"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4919-0194","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dmytro","family":"Krytskyi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Design Information Technologies, National Aerospace University \u201cKhAI\u201d, 61070 Kharkiv, Ukraine"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"418","article-title":"Exploring drone classifications and applications: A review","volume":"9","author":"Gholami","year":"2024","journal-title":"Int. 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