Drone-vs-bird detection challenge at IEEE AVSS2017

Small drones are a rising threat due to their possible mis- use for illegal activities, in particular smuggling and terror- ism. The project SafeShore, funded by the European Com- mission under the Horizon 2020 program, has launched the “drone-vs-bird detection challenge” to address one of the many technical issues arising in this context. The goal is to detect a drone appearing at some point in a video where birds may be also present: the algorithm should raise an alarm and provide a position estimate only when a drone is present, while not issuing alarms on birds. This paper reports on the challenge proposal, evaluation, and results