arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Evidential Deep Learning for Multi-Modal Anti-UAV Detection

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.

By Dmitry Golovchits, Seyed Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari, Ali Mohammed Mansoor Alsahag