Drone-vs-Bird detection challenge at IEEE AVSS2017
Angelo Coluccia, Marian Traian Ghenescu, Tomáš Piatrik, Geert De Cubber, Arne Schumann, Lars Wilko Sommer, Johannes Klatte, Tobias Schuchert, Jürgen Beyerer, Mohammad Reza Farhadi, Ruhallah Amandi, Cemal Aker, Sinan Kalkan, Muhammad Saqib, Nabin Sharma, Sultan Daud, Khan Makkah, Michael Blumenstein · 2017
Small drones are a rising threat due to their possible misuse for illegal activities, in particular smuggling and terrorism. The project SafeShore, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 program, has launched the “drone-vs-bird detection challenge” to address one of the many technical issues arising in this context. The goal is to detect a drone appearing at some point in a video where birds may be also present: the algorithm should raise an alarm and provide a position estimate only when a drone is present, while not issuing alarms on birds. This paper reports on the challenge proposal, evaluation, and results.