Summary of Neuromorphic Drone Detection: An Event-rgb Multimodal Approach, by Gabriele Magrini et al.
Neuromorphic Drone Detection: an Event-RGB Multimodal Approach
by Gabriele Magrini, Federico Becattini, Pietro Pala, Alberto Del Bimbo, Antonio Porta
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed paper tackles the pressing issue of drone detection, which has gained significant attention due to its potential for malicious or terrorist activities. The existing RGB-based object detection approaches have limitations when applied to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly in scenarios with high dynamic ranges, scarce illumination, and fast-moving objects. Neuromorphic cameras offer a solution by retaining rich spatio-temporal information in challenging conditions. To leverage the strengths of both domains, the paper presents a novel model that integrates multimodal data from neuromorphic and RGB sources. This approach enables the best of both worlds for drone detection. The authors also release NeRDD, a dataset of over 3.5 hours of annotated recordings featuring spatio-temporally synchronized Event-RGB Drone detection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Drone detection is a crucial issue that requires precise and resilient systems to identify and track these objects. Currently, most approaches rely on RGB data, but this has limitations when dealing with fast-moving drones or challenging lighting conditions. Neuromorphic cameras can help by retaining rich information in these situations. The proposed paper combines the strengths of both domains to create a new model for drone detection. This model uses multimodal data from neuromorphic and RGB sources to improve accuracy. The authors also provide a dataset, NeRDD, which contains over 3.5 hours of annotated recordings. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Object detection
