Development of RW-UAV detection model using deep learning training with a synthetic dataset

The use of rotary wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is increasing day by day and their accessibility is getting easier. As a disadvantage of easy accessibility and usability, UAV technology threatens security and personal areas. This technology, which is easy to access, should be detected with a cheap and easy-to-install detector. The aim of the study is to develop the UAV detection sensor using camera and machine learning based systems. Deep learning method has been used in sensor technology, which has shown successful classification results recently. Artificial intelligence trained with deep learning method shows effective results in terms of performance. On the other hand, artificial intelligence (AI) training needs a lot of data. To overcome this obstacle, the data set needed by the deep learning algorithm was produced synthetically using game engine software. The original aspect of the study is that the artificial intelligence trained with synthetically produced images was tested on real data and achieved 90% success. The success of AI, which is directly trained with synthetic data and tested with real data, is very low. The reason for this is the difference between the synthetic and real image. To minimize this difference, 7 different experiments were designed for different feature extraction algorithms. One of the experiments is the Corner Detection and Nearest Three-point Selection (CDNTS) feature extraction layer that we originally developed. The CDNTS layer classified the real data with 90% success.