用事件相机捕捉无人机螺旋桨周期信号,实现千米级远距离精准发现。
EventRadar: Long-Range Visual UAV Discovery through Spatiotemporal Event Sensing

- 基于螺旋桨周期性运动,从事件流中提取无人机特有信号
- 在700-1500米距离上达到0.990 mAPₐ.₃和0.949 F1ₐ.₃
- 实时处理原型系统,适合机场等敏感区域空域监控
机场、公共场所以及其它敏感区域周边的非法无人机活动日益增多,使得受保护空域监测变得愈发重要。一个实用的感知系统需能覆盖大视角范围,发现远距离小型目标,并在禁区被突破前提供方位支持与无人机特异性证据。现有方法多依赖空间结构线索,如机身尺寸、轮廓或轨迹连续性,但在远距离下,这些线索因目标像元占比减小而难以维持与验证。EventRadar采用互补线索:由螺旋桨引发的时序周期性,近期事件相机研究已证明其可在外观模糊后仍揭示无人机特征运动。本文将此线索拓展至千米级主动感知,使用事件相机原型。场景锚定几何证据(SAGE)融合扫描事件与IMU姿态,建立方位索引的场景记忆,分离瞬态候选与持久背景杂波。组合导引谐波组学习迭代收缩与阈值算法(CHG)将每个候选视为弱高频率时序信号,以固定计算量恢复相位无关的谐波证据。在700–1500米无人机事件记录上,相比相关事件相机基线,EventRadar实现0.990 mAPₐ.₃和0.949 F1ₐ.₃,漏检率降低至FNₐ.₃=0.009,且原型系统具备实时可行性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Unauthorized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) activity around airports, public venues, and other sensitive sites has made protected-airspace monitoring increasingly important. A practical sensing system must search a wide angular region, find small long-range targets, and return both bearing support and UAV-specific evidence before a restricted perimeter is breached. Existing UAV detection paths often rely on spatially organized evidence, such as body extent, silhouette, or track continuity. At long range, however, these cues become difficult to preserve and verify as the target footprint weakens and its image-plane support shrinks. EventRadar follows a complementary cue: propeller-induced temporal periodicity, which recent event-camera sensing studies have shown can reveal UAV-specific motion after appearance becomes weak. We extend this cue to kilometer-scale active sensing with an event-camera prototype. Scene-Anchored Geometry Evidence (SAGE) fuses scanning events with IMU pose to maintain a bearing-indexed scene memory, separating transient candidate support from persistent background clutter. Comb-guided Harmonic-Group Learned Iterative Shrinkage and Thresholding Algorithm (CHG) then treats each candidate as a weak high-rate timing signal and recovers phase-insensitive harmonic evidence with fixed compute. Compared with related event-camera baselines on 700-1500 m UAV event recordings, EventRadar achieves 0.990 mAP$_{.3}$ and 0.949 F1$_{.3}$, reduces FN$_{.3}$ to 0.009, and shows real-time feasibility in prototype profiling.
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