VisioDECT: a novel approach to drone detection using CBAM-integrated YOLO and GELAN-E models

<p dir="ltr">Unmanned aerial vehicles have revolutionized logistics, environmental monitoring, and aerial surveillance. Their widespread use has created security concerns, specifically regarding illegal spying, smuggling, and hazardous substance movement. Maintaining public safety an...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Md. Sakib Bin Islam (22828181) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury (14150526) (author), Mazhar Hasan-Zia (21399896) (author), Saad Bin Abul Kashem (17773188) (author), Molla E. Majid (21323921) (author), Ali K. Ansaruddin Kunju (22828184) (author), Amith Khandakar (14151981) (author), Azad Ashraf (17541924) (author), Mohammad Nashbat (17542194) (author)
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Saad Bin Abul Kashem (17773188)
Molla E. Majid (21323921)
Ali K. Ansaruddin Kunju (22828184)
Amith Khandakar (14151981)
Azad Ashraf (17541924)
Mohammad Nashbat (17542194)
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Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics
Information and computing sciences
Computer vision and multimedia computation
Machine learning
Logistics
Surveillance
Detection
Assessment
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Real-time
Military
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description <p dir="ltr">Unmanned aerial vehicles have revolutionized logistics, environmental monitoring, and aerial surveillance. Their widespread use has created security concerns, specifically regarding illegal spying, smuggling, and hazardous substance movement. Maintaining public safety and protecting sensitive locations requires effective drone detection and payload assessment. Our article proposes a vision-based system for real-time drone identification and classification utilizing YOLOv5, YOLOv8, and GELAN-E deep learning models, enhanced with novel attention mechanisms and interpretability techniques. By integrating the Convolutional Block Attention Module into the YOLO architecture, which is named AttnYOLO, the system enhances feature extraction and focuses on the most relevant regions in an image. This improvement in spatial and channel attention significantly boosts detection performance, particularly for small and occluded drones. Additionally, we employ Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (EigenCAM) for visualizing model focus during detection, increasing the system’s transparency and interpretability. VisioDECT comprises 20,924 annotated photographs of six drone models in overcast, sunny, and evening circumstances. Under cloudy conditions, DenseNet201 achieved 100% classification accuracy, while DarkNet53 and InceptionV3 reached 99.99% and 99.9%, respectively. In evening scenarios, InceptionV3 had 100% accuracy, followed by DarkNet53 with 99.98%. Our proposed model, GELAN-E, excelled in detection and classification. In overcast settings, GELAN-E outperformed YOLOv8 with an accuracy of 0.988, a recall of 0.994, and a mAP50-95 score of 0.688. For evening conditions, GELAN-E achieved a higher mAP50-95 score of 0.642 compared to YOLOv8. These results demonstrate that the inclusion of attention mechanisms, along with visual interpretability, enhances drone detection performance, particularly in low-light and challenging environments, making this system ideal for real-time drone detection in civilian and military applications .</p><h2 dir="ltr">Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Neural Computing and Applications<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-025-11448-3" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-025-11448-3</a></p>
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spelling VisioDECT: a novel approach to drone detection using CBAM-integrated YOLO and GELAN-E modelsMd. Sakib Bin Islam (22828181)Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury (14150526)Mazhar Hasan-Zia (21399896)Saad Bin Abul Kashem (17773188)Molla E. Majid (21323921)Ali K. Ansaruddin Kunju (22828184)Amith Khandakar (14151981)Azad Ashraf (17541924)Mohammad Nashbat (17542194)EngineeringControl engineering, mechatronics and roboticsInformation and computing sciencesComputer vision and multimedia computationMachine learningLogisticsSurveillanceDetectionAssessmentAnnotationsOvercastReal-timeMilitary<p dir="ltr">Unmanned aerial vehicles have revolutionized logistics, environmental monitoring, and aerial surveillance. Their widespread use has created security concerns, specifically regarding illegal spying, smuggling, and hazardous substance movement. Maintaining public safety and protecting sensitive locations requires effective drone detection and payload assessment. Our article proposes a vision-based system for real-time drone identification and classification utilizing YOLOv5, YOLOv8, and GELAN-E deep learning models, enhanced with novel attention mechanisms and interpretability techniques. By integrating the Convolutional Block Attention Module into the YOLO architecture, which is named AttnYOLO, the system enhances feature extraction and focuses on the most relevant regions in an image. This improvement in spatial and channel attention significantly boosts detection performance, particularly for small and occluded drones. Additionally, we employ Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (EigenCAM) for visualizing model focus during detection, increasing the system’s transparency and interpretability. VisioDECT comprises 20,924 annotated photographs of six drone models in overcast, sunny, and evening circumstances. Under cloudy conditions, DenseNet201 achieved 100% classification accuracy, while DarkNet53 and InceptionV3 reached 99.99% and 99.9%, respectively. In evening scenarios, InceptionV3 had 100% accuracy, followed by DarkNet53 with 99.98%. Our proposed model, GELAN-E, excelled in detection and classification. In overcast settings, GELAN-E outperformed YOLOv8 with an accuracy of 0.988, a recall of 0.994, and a mAP50-95 score of 0.688. For evening conditions, GELAN-E achieved a higher mAP50-95 score of 0.642 compared to YOLOv8. These results demonstrate that the inclusion of attention mechanisms, along with visual interpretability, enhances drone detection performance, particularly in low-light and challenging environments, making this system ideal for real-time drone detection in civilian and military applications .</p><h2 dir="ltr">Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Neural Computing and Applications<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-025-11448-3" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-025-11448-3</a></p>2025-07-09T03:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.1007/s00521-025-11448-3https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/VisioDECT_a_novel_approach_to_drone_detection_using_CBAM-integrated_YOLO_and_GELAN-E_models/31289182CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/312891822025-07-09T03:00:00Z
spellingShingle VisioDECT: a novel approach to drone detection using CBAM-integrated YOLO and GELAN-E models
Md. Sakib Bin Islam (22828181)
Engineering
Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics
Information and computing sciences
Computer vision and multimedia computation
Machine learning
Logistics
Surveillance
Detection
Assessment
Annotations
Overcast
Real-time
Military
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title VisioDECT: a novel approach to drone detection using CBAM-integrated YOLO and GELAN-E models
title_full VisioDECT: a novel approach to drone detection using CBAM-integrated YOLO and GELAN-E models
title_fullStr VisioDECT: a novel approach to drone detection using CBAM-integrated YOLO and GELAN-E models
title_full_unstemmed VisioDECT: a novel approach to drone detection using CBAM-integrated YOLO and GELAN-E models
title_short VisioDECT: a novel approach to drone detection using CBAM-integrated YOLO and GELAN-E models
title_sort VisioDECT: a novel approach to drone detection using CBAM-integrated YOLO and GELAN-E models
topic Engineering
Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics
Information and computing sciences
Computer vision and multimedia computation
Machine learning
Logistics
Surveillance
Detection
Assessment
Annotations
Overcast
Real-time
Military