A Geometry-Driven Approach to Detecting and Tracking Multiple Aerial Objects
摘要
We present a lightweight, geometry-driven multi-object tracker for UAV sense-and-avoid on embedded platforms. Independently moving features are segmented via robust background motion (USAC/MAGSAC) and HDBSCAN; clusters are converted to boxes and tracked with a constant-velocity Kalman filter and IoU–Hungarian association. On a 14,250-frame X-Plane11 simulation evaluated with HOTA/TrackEval, our method improves association accuracy (AssA) by +95.8% over a YOLOv8 baseline and +116% over an AVOIDDS baseline under the same protocol, while running in real time on Jetson Orin NX. Qualitative EO/IR results show robustness to very small targets ( \(\le 8\times 8\) px).