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This paper introduces DroneShield-AI, an open-source framework that fuses RF, acoustic, and visual sensors to detect UAV threats using YOLOv8 and Graph Neural Networks for swarm intelligence. While real-world sensor layers show strong individual performance, the study highlights significant challenges in combining unsynchronized datasets and notes that advanced behavioral modules currently rely on simulation data pending field validation. The release of code and a comprehensive test suite offers valuable resources for researchers developing autonomous counter-drone systems in contested environments.
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:2606.11687v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) threats have emerged as a defining security challenge of the 21st century. This paper presents DroneShield-AI, a unified open framework integrating six processing layers: RF signal classification, acoustic motor-signature detection, YOLOv8-based visual detection, evidence-weighted sensor fusion, a Behavioral Intent Classification Engine (BICE), and a Graph Neural Network Swarm Intelligence Module (GNN-SIM). This v2 revision reports measured results on the completed implementation (495 automated tests), superseding the v1 simulation-only preprint. On real public data: RF presence detection reaches F1 0.9924; acoustic detection reaches 98.12% accuracy, though a 4-feature statistical baseline reaches 93.25% on the same split, so the model's drone-specific contribution is approximately 4.9 points, a property of dataset provenance rather than a leakage bug; visual detection (YOLOv8) reaches AP50 0.8782 on a held-out test split, from a model still improving when training stopped. No fused-accuracy figure is reportable, since the three real-data layers use independently collected, unsynchronized datasets with no shared ground truth. BICE and GNN-SIM remain evaluated on physics-calibrated simulation data pending real adversarial and swarm field data: BICE shows a consistent robustness advantage over a trivial baseline under distribution shift; GNN-SIM underperforms its own trivial baseline in-distribution but independently replicates BICE's noise-robustness advantage, regarded as this work's most durable finding. All code, trained checkpoints, and the full test suite are publicly released.
Abstract:Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) threats have emerged as a defining security challenge of the 21st century. This paper presents DroneShield-AI, a unified open framework integrating six processing layers: RF signal classification, acoustic motor-signature detection, YOLOv8-based visual detection, evidence-weighted sensor fusion, a Behavioral Intent Classification Engine (BICE), and a Graph Neural Network Swarm Intelligence Module (GNN-SIM). This v2 revision reports measured results on the completed implementation (495 automated tests), superseding the v1 simulation-only preprint. On real public data: RF presence detection reaches F1 0.9924; acoustic detection reaches 98.12% accuracy, though a 4-feature statistical baseline reaches 93.25% on the same split, so the model's drone-specific contribution is approximately 4.9 points, a property of dataset provenance rather than a leakage bug; visual detection (YOLOv8) reaches AP50 0.8782 on a held-out test split, from a model still improving when training stopped. No fused-accuracy figure is reportable, since the three real-data layers use independently collected, unsynchronized datasets with no shared ground truth. BICE and GNN-SIM remain evaluated on physics-calibrated simulation data pending real adversarial and swarm field data: BICE shows a consistent robustness advantage over a trivial baseline under distribution shift; GNN-SIM underperforms its own trivial baseline in-distribution but independently replicates BICE's noise-robustness advantage, regarded as this work's most durable finding. All code, trained checkpoints, and the full test suite are publicly released.
18 pages, 6 figures, 20 tables. v2 adds Section 7.9 reporting measured results on the completed implementation (495 automated tests) and revision notes throughout Sections 3-9 and Appendix C; superscript daggers mark results still based on simulation data. Code available at this https URL
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2606.11687 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2606.11687v2 [cs.CV] for this version)
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