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Autori principali: Kaur, Dapinder, Battish, Neeraj, Bhavsar, Arnav, Poddar, Shashi
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2026
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08319
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author Kaur, Dapinder
Battish, Neeraj
Bhavsar, Arnav
Poddar, Shashi
author_facet Kaur, Dapinder
Battish, Neeraj
Bhavsar, Arnav
Poddar, Shashi
contents The use of aerial drones for commercial and defense applications has benefited in many ways and is therefore utilized in several different application domains. However, they are also increasingly used for targeted attacks, posing a significant safety challenge and necessitating the development of drone detection systems. Vision-based drone detection systems currently have an accuracy limitation and struggle to distinguish between drones and birds, particularly when the birds are small in size. This research work proposes a novel YOLOBirDrone architecture that improves the detection and classification accuracy of birds and drones. YOLOBirDrone has different components, including an adaptive and extended layer aggregation (AELAN), a multi-scale progressive dual attention module (MPDA), and a reverse MPDA (RMPDA) to preserve shape information and enrich features with local and global spatial and channel information. A large-scale dataset, BirDrone, is also introduced in this article, which includes small and challenging objects for robust aerial object identification. Experimental results demonstrate an improvement in performance metrics through the proposed YOLOBirDrone architecture compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms, with detection accuracy reaching approximately 85% across various scenarios.
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spellingShingle YOLOBirDrone: Dataset for Bird vs Drone Detection and Classification and a YOLO based enhanced learning architecture
Kaur, Dapinder
Battish, Neeraj
Bhavsar, Arnav
Poddar, Shashi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The use of aerial drones for commercial and defense applications has benefited in many ways and is therefore utilized in several different application domains. However, they are also increasingly used for targeted attacks, posing a significant safety challenge and necessitating the development of drone detection systems. Vision-based drone detection systems currently have an accuracy limitation and struggle to distinguish between drones and birds, particularly when the birds are small in size. This research work proposes a novel YOLOBirDrone architecture that improves the detection and classification accuracy of birds and drones. YOLOBirDrone has different components, including an adaptive and extended layer aggregation (AELAN), a multi-scale progressive dual attention module (MPDA), and a reverse MPDA (RMPDA) to preserve shape information and enrich features with local and global spatial and channel information. A large-scale dataset, BirDrone, is also introduced in this article, which includes small and challenging objects for robust aerial object identification. Experimental results demonstrate an improvement in performance metrics through the proposed YOLOBirDrone architecture compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms, with detection accuracy reaching approximately 85% across various scenarios.
title YOLOBirDrone: Dataset for Bird vs Drone Detection and Classification and a YOLO based enhanced learning architecture
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08319