Training with synthetic data for drone detection in thermal imagery
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arXiv:2608.17799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ground-to-Air (G2A) drone detection in medium- and long-wave infrared (MWIR/LWIR) imagery is challenging due to reduced texture information, sensor noise, weak thermal contrast, and the scarcity of annotated data. This work investigates a synthetic-first training strategy that combines synthetic scene generation with fine-tuning on real data. We show that synthetic data provides an effective basis for learning initial object representations, while real in-domain thermal imagery is still essential for reliable deployment. Even small amounts of r
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.17799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ground-to-Air (G2A) drone detection in medium- and long-wave infrared (MWIR/LWIR) imagery is challenging due to reduced texture information, sensor noise, weak thermal contrast, and the scarcity of annotated data.
- This work investigates a synthetic-first training strategy that combines synthetic scene generation with fine-tuning on real data.
- We show that synthetic data provides an effective basis for learning initial object representations, while real in-domain thermal imagery is still essential for reliable deployment.
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