Drones Help Drones: A Collaborative Framework for Multi-Drone Object Trajectory Prediction and Beyond

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Main Authors: Wang, Zhechao, Cheng, Peirui, Chen, Mingxin, Tian, Pengju, Wang, Zhirui, Li, Xinming, Yang, Xue, Sun, Xian
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author Wang, Zhechao
Cheng, Peirui
Chen, Mingxin
Tian, Pengju
Wang, Zhirui
Li, Xinming
Yang, Xue
Sun, Xian
author_facet Wang, Zhechao
Cheng, Peirui
Chen, Mingxin
Tian, Pengju
Wang, Zhirui
Li, Xinming
Yang, Xue
Sun, Xian
contents Collaborative trajectory prediction can comprehensively forecast the future motion of objects through multi-view complementary information. However, it encounters two main challenges in multi-drone collaboration settings. The expansive aerial observations make it difficult to generate precise Bird's Eye View (BEV) representations. Besides, excessive interactions can not meet real-time prediction requirements within the constrained drone-based communication bandwidth. To address these problems, we propose a novel framework named "Drones Help Drones" (DHD). Firstly, we incorporate the ground priors provided by the drone's inclined observation to estimate the distance between objects and drones, leading to more precise BEV generation. Secondly, we design a selective mechanism based on the local feature discrepancy to prioritize the critical information contributing to prediction tasks during inter-drone interactions. Additionally, we create the first dataset for multi-drone collaborative prediction, named "Air-Co-Pred", and conduct quantitative and qualitative experiments to validate the effectiveness of our DHD framework.The results demonstrate that compared to state-of-the-art approaches, DHD reduces position deviation in BEV representations by over 20% and requires only a quarter of the transmission ratio for interactions while achieving comparable prediction performance. Moreover, DHD also shows promising generalization to the collaborative 3D object detection in CoPerception-UAVs.
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spellingShingle Drones Help Drones: A Collaborative Framework for Multi-Drone Object Trajectory Prediction and Beyond
Wang, Zhechao
Cheng, Peirui
Chen, Mingxin
Tian, Pengju
Wang, Zhirui
Li, Xinming
Yang, Xue
Sun, Xian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Collaborative trajectory prediction can comprehensively forecast the future motion of objects through multi-view complementary information. However, it encounters two main challenges in multi-drone collaboration settings. The expansive aerial observations make it difficult to generate precise Bird's Eye View (BEV) representations. Besides, excessive interactions can not meet real-time prediction requirements within the constrained drone-based communication bandwidth. To address these problems, we propose a novel framework named "Drones Help Drones" (DHD). Firstly, we incorporate the ground priors provided by the drone's inclined observation to estimate the distance between objects and drones, leading to more precise BEV generation. Secondly, we design a selective mechanism based on the local feature discrepancy to prioritize the critical information contributing to prediction tasks during inter-drone interactions. Additionally, we create the first dataset for multi-drone collaborative prediction, named "Air-Co-Pred", and conduct quantitative and qualitative experiments to validate the effectiveness of our DHD framework.The results demonstrate that compared to state-of-the-art approaches, DHD reduces position deviation in BEV representations by over 20% and requires only a quarter of the transmission ratio for interactions while achieving comparable prediction performance. Moreover, DHD also shows promising generalization to the collaborative 3D object detection in CoPerception-UAVs.
title Drones Help Drones: A Collaborative Framework for Multi-Drone Object Trajectory Prediction and Beyond
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14674