Treffer: Real-Time Detection of Drones Using Channel and Layer Pruning, Based on the YOLOv3-SPP3 Deep Learning Algorithm.

Achieving a real-time and accurate detection of drones in natural environments is essential for the interception of drones intruding into high-security areas. However, a rapid and accurate detection of drones is difficult because of their small size and fast speed. In this paper a drone detection method as proposed by pruning the convolutional channel and residual structures of YOLOv3-SPP3. First, the k-means algorithm was used to cluster label the boxes. Second, the channel and shortcut layer pruning algorithm was used to prune the model. Third, the model was fine tuned to achieve a real-time detection of drones. The experimental results obtained by using the Ubuntu server under the Python 3.6 environment show that the YOLOv3-SPP3 algorithm is better than YOLOV3, Tiny-YOLOv3, CenterNet, SSD300, and faster R-CNN. There is significant compression in the size, the maximum compression factor is 20.1 times, the maximum detection speed is increased by 10.2 times, the maximum map value is increased by 15.2%, and the maximum precision is increased by 16.54%. The proposed algorithm achieves the mAP score of 95.15% and the detection speed of 112 f/s, which can meet the requirements of the real-time detection of UAVs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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