Real-Time Drone Detection in Event Cameras via Per-Pixel Frequency Analysis

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• The proposed DDHF method achieves an average localization F1 score of 90.89% for drone detection using event cameras.result 95%
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  DDHF achieves an average localization F1 score of 90.89%

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• DDHF processes frames with an average latency of 2.39ms, making it suitable for real-time applications.result 95%
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  average latency of 2.39ms per frame

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• DDHF outperforms YOLO-based detection in both accuracy and latency for drone detection from event camera data.result 90%
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  demonstrating improvement in accuracy and latency across a difficult array of drone speeds, distances, and scenarios

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• Traditional Discrete Fourier Transforms are ineffective for event camera data because they assume uniformly sampled data.technical 90%
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  Traditional Discrete Fourier Transforms (DFT) are effective at identifying periodic signals, such as spinning rotors, but they assume uniformly sampled data, which event cameras do not provide

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• The DDHF method uses Non-uniform Discrete Fourier Transform for per-pixel temporal analysis to detect drone rotor frequency signatures.method 90%
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  We propose a novel per-pixel temporal analysis framework using the Non-uniform Discrete Fourier Transform (NDFT), which we call Drone Detection via Harmonic Fingerprinting (DDHF)

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• DDHF identifies drone rotors by detecting frequency combs in their power spectra, which serve as harmonic fingerprints.method 85%
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  identify the frequency signature of drone rotors, as characterized by frequency combs in their power spectra

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• DDHF can be quickly tuned on small datasets due to its purely analytical nature, unlike deep learning methods.method 85%
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  Through utilization of purely analytic techniques, DDHF is quickly tuned on small data, easily interpretable

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• YOLO-based detection achieves only 66.74% F1 score and requires 12.40ms per frame for the same drone detection task.result 95%
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  YOLO achieves an F1 score of 66.74% and requires 12.40ms per frame

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