AE-UAV: First Air-to-Air Event-Based UAV Tracking Benchmark and Real-Time CPU Tracker

Jul 17, 2026

Researchers have introduced AE-UAV, the first airborne-captured event camera dataset specifically for air-to-air UAV tracking, featuring 178 flight sequences with detailed annotations. They also present FSFT, a lightweight, training-free tracker that achieves 420 FPS on CPU-only hardware and retains 93.97% of the accuracy of state-of-the-art GPU-based methods. This approach offers a 5.32-fold speedup and demonstrates strong generalization in temporal resolution.

Why it matters: This work enables efficient, real-time UAV tracking on resource-constrained platforms, addressing a major challenge in airborne remote sensing.

Full story at: arXiv Computer Vision ↗