arXiv:2607.28470cs.AIcs.CV2026-07

用卫星本地推理+生成数据增强,提升小飞机检测效果。

Towards Autonomous Aircraft Surveillance from Nanosatellites through On-Board Inference and Generative Data Augmentation

论文配图:Towards Autonomous Aircraft Surveillance from Nanosatellites through On-Board Inference and Generative Data Augmentation
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  • 卫星本地运行轻量模型,实时处理图像避免传海量原始数据。
  • 生成少数类飞机图像使小类F1从0.683升至0.811。
  • 适合需要实时空域监控的低轨纳米卫星项目使用。

低地球轨道上的航空监视受限于两大瓶颈:纳米卫星下行带宽有限,但传统方法仍传输太字节级原始图像至地面处理;同时公开的航空器数据集稀缺且类别严重失衡。这导致决策延迟或检测器难以学习稀有类别的鲁棒表征。本文提出一种结合星载推理与生成式数据增强的工作流,解决双重问题。在配备低功耗边缘张量加速器的6U立方星上执行推理,通过低秩适配微调的扩散模型生成少数类飞机图像,由中间检测器自动伪标注后与传统增强样本融合。结果表明,平衡数据集使全局mAP从77.9%提升至82.2%,少数类F1从0.683增至0.811,量化检测器满足片上内存限制,在轨实现25–30帧/秒推理。该方案突破传统“弯管”架构,使卫星成为主动决策单元,验证了其在纳米卫星自主空中监视中的可行性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Airborne surveillance from low Earth orbit is hindered by two interconnected bottlenecks: nanosatellites have a limited downlink budget, yet the conventional approach still transmits terabytes of raw imagery to the ground for processing, and open satellite datasets for aircraft are scarce and severely class-imbalanced. These limitations either delay timely decision-making or prevent standard detectors from learning robust representations of rare aircraft classes. In this paper, a workflow that combines on-board inference with generative data augmentation is proposed to address both limitations jointly. Inference is executed on a 6U CubeSat equipped with a low-power edge tensor accelerator, while a diffusion model fine-tuned through low-rank adaptation generates synthetic minority-class imagery. This synthetic output is automatically annotated, pseudo-labelled, by an intermediate detector and merged with classically augmented samples. The results show that the balanced dataset increases global mean average precision from 77.9% to 82.2%, with the minority class rising from F1=0.683 to F1=0.811, and that the quantised detector fits the on-chip memory and projects 25-30 frames per second on orbit. This approach contrasts with the conventional bent-pipe architecture, in which the satellite acts as a passive data collector. Therefore, the computational tests support the proposed workflow as a decision-support tool for real-time, autonomous airborne surveillance from nanosatellites.

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