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Track Boosting and Synthetic Data Aided Drone Detection
Fatih Cagatay Akyon, Ogulcan Eryuksel, Kamil Anil Ozfuttu, Sinan Onur Altinuc
This is the paper for the first place winning solution of the Drone vs. Bird Challenge, organized by AVSS 2021. As the usage of drones increases with lowered costs and improved drone technology, drone detection emerges as a vital object detection task. However, detecting distant drones under unfavorable conditions, namely weak contrast, long-range, low visibility, requires effective algorithms. Our method approaches the drone detection problem by fine-tuning a YOLOv5 model with real and synthetically generated data using a Kalman-based object tracker to boost detection confidence. Our results indicate that augmenting the real data with an optimal subset of synthetic data can increase the performance. Moreover, temporal information gathered by object tracking methods can increase performance further.
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Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28
| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object Detection | Drone vs Bird | OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data) | AP50 | 79.4 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Detection | Drone vs Bird | OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data) | AP50l | 70.3 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Detection | Drone vs Bird | OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data) | AP50m | 72.7 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Detection | Drone vs Bird | OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting (Including Synthetic Data) | AP50s | 86.2 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Detection | Drone vs Bird | OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting | AP50 | 76.1 | #2 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Detection | Drone vs Bird | OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting | AP50l | 43 | #2 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Detection | Drone vs Bird | OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting | AP50m | 67.6 | #2 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Object Detection | Drone vs Bird | OBSS YOLOv5+Track Boosting | AP50s | 86.6 | #2 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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