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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have boosted modern living. Tiny, frail high-density targets, low resolution, complicated backgrounds, noise, and poor real-time exposure performance have augmented due to UAV firms. Realtime recognition in high-altitude (HA) infrared thermal images is intricate. Our fresh OSTD-YOLOv8 is a multi-class target recognition tactic to tackle these issues and spot and classify objects on the HIT-UAV dataset. YOLOv8 is an effective advanced object detection model. Our OSTD-YOLOv8 model detects small objects in HA thermal images with 90 \% precision, 91. 5 \% recall, 90. 5 \% F1-score, 89. 1 \% AP, and 98% mAP. Our unique approach delivers effective object recognition in difficult thermal imaging conditions. Consequently, this distinctive UAV-focused HA, thermal, target detection scheme can be used.
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