Summary of Drone Detection Using Deep Neural Networks Trained on Pure Synthetic Data, by Mariusz Wisniewski et al.
Drone Detection using Deep Neural Networks Trained on Pure Synthetic Data
by Mariusz Wisniewski, Zeeshan A. Rana, Ivan Petrunin, Alan Holt, Stephen Harman
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a drone detection model trained on synthetic data, which achieves impressive results when evaluated on real-world data. The Faster-RCNN model is trained on a purely synthetic dataset and transfers well to the MAV-Vid real-world dataset, achieving an AP_50 of 97.0%, comparable to a model trained on real-world data. The study demonstrates the potential for using synthetic data in drone detection, reducing data collection costs and improving labelling quality. The findings have implications for developing reliable drone detection systems, which could benefit areas like unmanned traffic management. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Drone detection is important because it helps keep us safe from unwanted drones. Right now, we don’t have enough good data to train models that can accurately detect drones. Synthetic data is a way to create fake but realistic data that can help with this problem. This study shows that by training a model on synthetic data, we can get good results when testing it on real-world data. This could make it cheaper and easier to develop reliable drone detection systems. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Faster rcnn » Synthetic data
