MCL drone dataset

A drone monitoring system that integrates deep-learning-based detection and tracking modules is proposed in this work. The biggest challenge in adopting deep learning methods for drone detection is the limited amount of training drone images. To address this issue, we develop a model-based drone augmentation technique that automatically generates drone images with a bounding box label on drone’s location. To track a small flying drone, we utilize the residual information between consecutive image frames. Finally, we present an integrated detection and tracking system that outperforms the performance of each individual module containing detection or tracking only. The experiments show that, even being trained on synthetic data, the proposed system performs well on real world drone images with complex background. The USC drone detection and tracking dataset with user labeled bounding boxes is available to the public.

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If you use this dataset in your work, please cite related papers:

Wang, Ye, Yueru Chen, Jongmoo Choi, and C-C. Jay Kuo. “Towards Visible and Thermal Drone Monitoring with Convolutional Neural Networks.” APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing 8 (2019).

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