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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (9): 323733-323733.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2020.23733

• Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Control • Previous Articles     Next Articles

UAV detection in motion cameras combining kernelized correlation filters and deep learning

LIANG Dong1,2,3, GAO Sai1,2,3, SUN Han1,2,3, LIU Ningzhong1,2,3   

  1. 1. College of Computer science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China;
    2. MIIT Key Laboratory of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Nanjing 211106, China;
    3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and Industrialization, Nanjing 211106, China
  • Received:2019-12-17 Revised:2020-01-07 Online:2020-09-15 Published:2020-03-06
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (61601223); National Defense Technology Innovation Zone Project

Abstract: To solve the problem of motion blurs caused by the rapid relative movement of the UAV and the camera, and the missed detection and false detection problems resulted from the lack of appearance information and complex background of small drones, a new drone detection-tracking method is proposed. Aiming at UAV targets with imaging sizes less than 32 pixel×32 pixel, an improved multi-layer feature pyramid classification and a target box regressor are proposed as target detectors to overcome missed detection. The detection result is used to initialize the target tracker based on kernelized correlation filters, and continuously modify the tracking result which provides a basis for the elimination of false detection. During the tracking process, a camera motion compensation strategy adaptive to the observed scene texture is introduced to achieve target relocation. Experimental results in multiple scenarios show that the proposed method is significantly better than traditional ones in the detection and tracking of small high-speed moving targets. In addition, the introduction of motion compensation mechanism further enhances the robustness of the method in extremely complex scenarios.

Key words: multi-layer feature pyramid, kernelized correlation filters, phase correlation, random sample consensus, optical flow

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