DroneShield-AI: A Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion Framework for Real-Time Autonomous Drone Threat Detection, Behavioral Intent Classification, and Swarm Intelligence in Contested Airspace

arXiv:2606.11687 · cs.CV, cs.LG, cs.RO · Submitted 2026-06-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.LG, cs.RO

Submitted: 2026-06-10

Updated: 2026-09-26

Code: https://github.com/bayizeremarius/DroneShield-AI

Terminology

• Accuracy — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AUC — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority — 6× in this paper
• Behavioral Intent Classification Engine — 4× in this paper
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Ablation study — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sim-to-Real Transfer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle — 3× in this paper
• 1D CNN — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adversarial scenarios — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptive Weighting — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Matching — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Domain Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• External Validation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes

Sources

• Investigation of UAV Detection in Images with Complex Backgrounds and Rainy Artifacts
• MMAUD: A Comprehensive Multi-Modal Anti-UAV Dataset for Modern Miniature Drone Threats
• Multi-Modal UAV Detection, Classification and Tracking Algorithm -- Technical Report for CVPR 2024 UG2 Challenge
• A Multi-task Learning Framework for Drone State Identification and Trajectory Prediction
• Neural Relational Inference for Interacting Systems
• Biologically Inspired Swarm Dynamic Target Tracking and Obstacle Avoidance

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