A Lightweight Uav Swarm Detection Method Integrated Attention Mechanism

Abstract

Aiming at the problems of low detection accuracy and large computing resource consumption of existing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) detection algorithms for anti-UAV, this paper proposes a lightweight UAV swarm detection method based on You Only Look Once Version X (YOLOX). This method uses depthwise separable convolution to simplify and optimize the network, and greatly simplifies the total parameters, while the accuracy is only partially reduced. Meanwhile, a Squeeze-and-Extraction (SE) module is introduced into the backbone to improve the model′s ability to extract features; the introduction of a Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) in the feature fusion network makes the network pay more attention to important features and suppress unnecessary features. Furthermore, Distance-IoU (DIoU) is used to replace Intersection over Union (IoU) to calculate the regression loss for model optimization, and data augmentation technology is used to expand the dataset to achieve a better detection effect. The experimental results show that the mean Average Precision (mAP) of the proposed method reaches 82.32%, approximately 2% higher than the baseline model, while the number of parameters is only about 1/10th of that of YOLOX-S, with the size of 3.85 MB. The proposed approach is, thus, a lightweight model with high detection accuracy and suitable for various edge computing devices.