MMFW-UAV dataset: multi-sensor and multi-view fixed-wing UAV dataset for air-to-air vision tasks

Abstract

We present an air-to-air multi-sensor and multi-view fixed-wing UAV dataset, MMFW-UAV, in this work. MMFW-UAV contains a total of 147,417 fixed-wing UAVs images captured by multiple types of sensors (zoom, wide-angle, and thermal imaging sensors), displaying the flight status of fixed-wing UAVs of different sizes, appearances, structures, and stabilized flight velocities from multiple aerial perspectives (top-down, horizontal, and bottom-up views), aiming to cover the full-range of perspectives with multi-modal image data. Quality control processes of semi-automatic annotation, manual check, and secondary refinement are performed on each image. To the best of our knowledge, MMFW-UAV is the first one-to-one multi-modal image dataset for fixed-wing UAVs with high-quality annotations. Several mainstream deep learning-based object detection architectures are evaluated on MMFW-UAV and the experimental results demonstrate that MMFW-UAV can be utilized for fixed-wing UAV identification, detection, and monitoring. We believe that MMFW-UAV will contribute to various fixed-wing UAVs-based research and applications.