Drone Detection from Video Streams UsingImage Processing Techniques and YOLOv7

For ensuring the safety issues, a country should establish a secure monitoring system around the most important places. Due to the huge development in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), drone detection is a vital part of the safety monitoring system for reducing threats from neighboring countries or terrorist groups. This paper presents a deep learning-based drone detection method. A You Only Look Once (YOLO) v7 architecture is used to train on the dataset. The training dataset consists of drone images in various environments. The trained model was tested on multiple videos of drones from YouTube. Experimental results demonstrate that the model exhibited a recall of 0.9656 and a precision of 0.9509. In addition, the performance of the model compares with the state-of-art models with YOLOv8, YOLO-NAS, Faster-RCNN architectures and it outperforms the other models by maintaining a more stable precision and recall curve.