首个空对空事件相机数据集,实现毫秒级实时跟踪。
AE-UAV: An Air-to-Air Event-Based UAV Tracking Benchmark and a Real-Time Frequency-Domain Tracker

- 用频域模板匹配+区域预测,无训练轻量追踪
- 纯CPU运行达420帧/秒,精度保持93.97%
- 适合资源受限无人机,解决光照与高速运动问题
空对空无人机跟踪是低空空中目标遥感的基础。传统帧式相机在弱光、过曝和高速运动下因动态范围有限、采样固定而性能严重下降。事件相机虽具微秒级时间分辨率和高动态范围,但现有研究受限于两点:缺乏专用的空对空事件数据集,且追踪器依赖GPU加速和大量训练数据,难以部署于资源受限的无人机。为此,我们提出AE-UAV,首个基于空中拍摄的事件相机空对空追踪基准数据集,包含178组飞行序列,带连续时间三次B样条标注。同时提出快速-慢速频域追踪(FSFT)方法,一种无需训练的轻量级框架,融合频域模板匹配、搜索区域预测与检测驱动的漂移校正。实验表明,该方法仅用CPU即可达到420帧/秒,精度达先进GPU方法的93.97%,有效提速5.32倍,且具备更优的时间分辨率泛化能力,为机载空中目标遥感提供高效鲁棒解决方案。数据集与代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Air-to-air (A2A) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is fundamental to airborne remote sensing of low-altitude aerial targets. However, the deployment of continuous, real-time tracking systems on UAVs presents significant challenges. In A2A scenarios, traditional frame-based cameras suffer from severe performance degradation under low illumination, overexposure, and high-speed motion owing to their limited dynamic range and fixed temporal sampling. Although event cameras offer a promising alternative with microsecond temporal resolution and a high dynamic range, current research is bottlenecked by two primary issues: 1) the absence of dedicated A2A event-based datasets, and 2) the heavy reliance of existing trackers on GPU acceleration and extensive training data, rendering them impractical for resource-constrained UAVs. To bridge these gaps, we introduce AE-UAV, an air-to-air event-based UAV tracking benchmark. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first airborne-captured event camera dataset for A2A tracking, comprising 178 flight sequences with continuous-time cubic B-spline annotations. Furthermore, we propose the Fast-Slow Frequency-domain Tracking (FSFT) method. This lightweight, training-free framework seamlessly integrates frequency-domain template matching with search region prediction and detection-based drift correction. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FSFT operates at an ultra-fast 420 frames per second (FPS) on CPU-only hardware. It retains 93.97% of the accuracy of state-of-the-art GPU-dependent methods while delivering a 5.32-fold effective speedup and exhibiting superior temporal resolution generalization, thereby providing a highly efficient and robust solution for airborne remote sensing of aerial targets. The dataset and source code are available at https://github.com/MSP-xEN/AE-UAV.
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