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  • 1College of Aviation Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan 618307, China.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|June 12, 2026
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This study introduces QA2FDet, a novel network for detecting tiny pedestrians in aerial images using visible and thermal data. The method enhances feature learning and cross-modal fusion for improved urban security and disaster response.

Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Remote Sensing

Background:

  • Tiny pedestrian detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aerial images is vital for urban security and disaster response.
  • Challenges include small pedestrian scale, sparse distribution, background noise, and cross-modal spatial misalignment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose QA2FDet, a quality-aware adaptive alignment fusion network to address challenges in visible-thermal tiny pedestrian detection.
  • To enhance feature learning and cross-modal fusion for robust detection in aerial imagery.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a Quality-Aware Adaptive Alignment Fusion Network (QA2FDet) with three modules: Spectrum-Spatial Decoupled Enhancement (SDE), Cross-Modal Correspondence Mining (CCM), and Prior-Informed Gated Fusion (PGF).
Keywords:
RGBT fusionaerial imagesfeature alignmentquality priortiny person detection

Related Experiment Videos

  • Utilized Discrete Cosine Transform in SDE to reduce background noise and deep semantic gating for detail enhancement.
  • Employed thermal-guided local asymmetric cross-attention in CCM for fine-grained correspondence.
  • Integrated region-level quality and modality discrepancy modeling in PGF for adaptive fusion.

    • Main Results:

    • QA2FDet achieved state-of-the-art performance on multiple UAV-based RGBT detection benchmarks.
    • Demonstrated strong robustness in challenging aerial scenes with tiny and sparsely distributed pedestrians.

    Conclusions:

    • QA2FDet effectively overcomes limitations in tiny pedestrian detection by improving feature learning and cross-modal fusion.
    • The proposed network shows significant promise for real-world applications in aerial surveillance and emergency response.