CEAFFOD: Cross-Ensemble Attention-based Feature Fusion Architecture Towards a Robust and Real-time UAV-based Object Detection in Complex Scenarios

Ahmed Elhagry,Hang Dai,Abdulmotaleb El Saddik,Wail Gueaieb,Giulia De Masi,Ahmed Elhagry,Hang Dai,Abdulmotaleb El Saddik,Wail Gueaieb,Giulia De Masi

Deploying object detectors in embedded devices such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) comes with many challenges. This is due to both the UAV itself having low embedded resources in terms of computation and memory, and also due to the nature of the captured visual data with the variations in objects' scale, orientation, density, viewpoint, distribution, shape, context and others. It is crucial fo...