The paper investigates the use of evidential deep learning (EDL) for multi‑modal anti‑UAV detection, comparing it with sigmoid baselines, Dempster‑Shafer evidence fusion, and uncertainty‑driven temporal sensor gating across three benchmarks (thermal tracking, RGB‑audio‑RF classification, and RGB‑IR tracking). EDL improves accuracy by up to 5.9 percentage points and better ranks classification errors, while the other components (DS fusion, Dirichlet vacuity, temporal gating) do not provide the expected benefits. The study concludes that the primary advantage of EDL stems from its training objective rather than its uncertainty estimates.
arXiv:2608.29235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anti-UAV perception systems must remain reliable when sensor streams degrade under occlusion, fast motion, or modality-specific failure. Existing multi...
arXiv:2606. 28416v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown outstanding performance in visual recognition tasks within vision sensor networks; however, they are still vulnerable to adversarial manipulations and imperceptible perturbations that can lead to erroneous predictions.
The paper investigates how to balance model size and fine‑tuning strategy for UAV audio classification. Using a dataset of 3,100 clips across 31 drone classes, it compares transformer and convolutional backbones under full fine‑tuning, classifier‑only fine‑tuning, and four parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning methods. Results show that selective batch‑norm tuning of EfficientNet‑B7 yields the best accuracy (97.65%) while updating less than 0.5% of parameters, and that lightweight CNNs generally outperform transformers in both accuracy and efficiency.
arXiv:2609.24668v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable uncertainty estimation is essential for deploying object detectors in autonomous systems operating in uncertain environments. Evidential Deep...
Reliable uncertainty estimation is essential for deploying object detectors in autonomous systems operating in uncertain environments. Evidential Deep Learning (EDL) provides a principled framework fo...
arXiv:2603. 25670v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safety monitoring is essential for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs).
arXiv:2609.15171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Airborne optical tracking of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is challenging due to extremely small target scales, rapid viewpoint changes, and clu...
arXiv:2609.13013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flat roofs are among the most influential components of the building envelope, governing both structural performance and thermal efficiency, and thereb...
arXiv:2605. 26477v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieve remarkable performance, their tendency to produce overconfident predictions.
arXiv:2605. 13922v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: During thDuring the last few years, the term Mechanistic Interpretability, a specific area, under the umbrella of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), has been introduced, to explain the decisions made by complex machine learning (ML) models in critical systems like UAV intrusion detection systems (UAVIDS).
arXiv:2606. 06536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated defect detection in high-voltage transmission-line insulators remains challenging due to severe class imbalance, large scale variation, and the small spatial extent of defect instances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery.
arXiv:2607. 03131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern video surveillance systems generate far more video streams than human operators can effectively monitor, making automated analysis essential for timely detection of security events.