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Papers/Track Boosting and Synthetic Data Aided Drone Detection

Track Boosting and Synthetic Data Aided Drone Detection

Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Ogulcan Eryuksel, Kamil Anil Ozfuttu, Sinan Onur Altinuc

2021-11-24Object Trackingobject-detectionObject Detection
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Abstract

This is the paper for the first place winning solution of the Drone vs. Bird Challenge, organized by AVSS 2021. As the usage of drones increases with lowered costs and improved drone technology, drone detection emerges as a vital object detection task. However, detecting distant drones under unfavorable conditions, namely weak contrast, long-range, low visibility, requires effective algorithms. Our method approaches the drone detection problem by fine-tuning a YOLOv5 model with real and synthetically generated data using a Kalman-based object tracker to boost detection confidence. Our results indicate that augmenting the real data with an optimal subset of synthetic data can increase the performance. Moreover, temporal information gathered by object tracking methods can increase performance further.

Results

TaskDatasetMetricValueModel
Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP5079.4OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50l70.3OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50m72.7OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50s86.2OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP5076.1OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50l43OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50m67.6OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50s86.6OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
3DDrone vs BirdAP5079.4OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
3DDrone vs BirdAP50l70.3OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
3DDrone vs BirdAP50m72.7OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
3DDrone vs BirdAP50s86.2OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
3DDrone vs BirdAP5076.1OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
3DDrone vs BirdAP50l43OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
3DDrone vs BirdAP50m67.6OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
3DDrone vs BirdAP50s86.6OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
2D ClassificationDrone vs BirdAP5079.4OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
2D ClassificationDrone vs BirdAP50l70.3OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
2D ClassificationDrone vs BirdAP50m72.7OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
2D ClassificationDrone vs BirdAP50s86.2OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
2D ClassificationDrone vs BirdAP5076.1OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
2D ClassificationDrone vs BirdAP50l43OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
2D ClassificationDrone vs BirdAP50m67.6OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
2D ClassificationDrone vs BirdAP50s86.6OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
2D Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP5079.4OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
2D Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50l70.3OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
2D Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50m72.7OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
2D Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50s86.2OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
2D Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP5076.1OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
2D Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50l43OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
2D Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50m67.6OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
2D Object DetectionDrone vs BirdAP50s86.6OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
16kDrone vs BirdAP5079.4OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
16kDrone vs BirdAP50l70.3OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
16kDrone vs BirdAP50m72.7OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
16kDrone vs BirdAP50s86.2OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data)
16kDrone vs BirdAP5076.1OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
16kDrone vs BirdAP50l43OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
16kDrone vs BirdAP50m67.6OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting
16kDrone vs BirdAP50s86.6OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting

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