Vision Meets Drones: A Challenge
Pengfei Zhu, Longyin Wen, Xiao Bian, Haibin Ling, Qinghua Hu

TL;DR
This paper introduces VisDrone2018, a large-scale benchmark dataset for visual object detection and tracking on drone platforms, covering diverse urban environments with extensive annotations to facilitate research in drone-based visual analysis.
Contribution
The paper presents the largest annotated dataset for drone-based visual analysis, enabling comprehensive evaluation of detection and tracking algorithms in challenging conditions.
Findings
Over 2.5 million annotated instances in the dataset
Includes four challenging tasks: object detection in images, videos, and tracking
Dataset covers diverse urban environments across China
Abstract
In this paper we present a large-scale visual object detection and tracking benchmark, named VisDrone2018, aiming at advancing visual understanding tasks on the drone platform. The images and video sequences in the benchmark were captured over various urban/suburban areas of 14 different cities across China from north to south. Specifically, VisDrone2018 consists of 263 video clips and 10,209 images (no overlap with video clips) with rich annotations, including object bounding boxes, object categories, occlusion, truncation ratios, etc. With intensive amount of effort, our benchmark has more than 2.5 million annotated instances in 179,264 images/video frames. Being the largest such dataset ever published, the benchmark enables extensive evaluation and investigation of visual analysis algorithms on the drone platform. In particular, we design four popular tasks with the benchmark,…
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TopicsAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques · Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization · Vibrio bacteria research studies
