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Problem

Building aerial visual perception systems: datasets, detection and segmentation models, tracking, and the edge deployment path.

Topic reviewed 2026-08-16 · Membership is an editorial index, not a compatibility or performance claim.

Engineering questions

  • Which public aerial dataset matches the task, class set and evaluation protocol?
  • How do model export formats map to the target edge runtime?
  • What is the evidence chain from benchmark results to deployment claims?
  • How should training and evaluation splits stay comparable with published work?

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Detection and trackingSegmentationDataset pipelinesModel exportEdge inference

Stack layers: perception_localization · data · edge_ai · sensors

Engineering scope and evidence boundary

This topic is intentionally narrow: it connects the current release's AI model and dataset records, then explains how they should be read together without implying that a dataset proves model accuracy or that a model is deployable on a particular aircraft. OpenFly records the resource type, source tier, verification status, repository or project URL, and retrieval date separately. The topic page therefore supports an evidence review workflow: identify whether the item is a model or dataset, open the relevant SourceRef, inspect the recorded limitations, and use the linked guide or collection for deployment questions. Hardware acceleration, benchmark scores, latency, and field performance remain Unknown unless the release contains explicit evidence for them.

Topic membership is an editorial index, not a compatibility or performance claim. Verify each resource through its SourceRef, retrieval date, and verification status.

Indexed resources

AI
Dataset Tier A

dronefreak/Aeroscapes

Official confirmed

Aeroscapes: Aerial Semantic Segmentation Dataset Unofficial redistribution of the AeroScapes dataset under the original CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Disclaimer This repository is not an official release of the AeroScapes dataset. The AeroScapes dataset was created by Ishan Nigam, Chen Huang, and Deva Ramanan, with dataset collection and manual annotation supported by Autel Robotics. They retain all copyr

Perception AI Semantic Segmentation Aerial Imagery +6
CC-BY-SA-4.0 Inferred Checked 1mo ago
AI
Dataset Tier A

dronefreak/GWHD

Official confirmed

GWHD 2021: Global Wheat Head Dataset (Object Detection) Unofficial redistribution of the Global Wheat Head Dataset (GWHD) 2021 competition release, reformatted into a standardized YOLO-compatible directory layout. Disclaimer This repository is not an official release of the Global Wheat Head Dataset. GWHD was created by the Global Wheat Head Detection consortium — a multi-institution, multi-countr

Perception AI Object Detection Agriculture +6
CC-BY-4.0 Inferred Checked 1mo ago
AI
Official confirmed

Inria Aerial Image Labeling Dataset Description The Inria Aerial Image Labeling Dataset is a building semantic segmentation dataset proposed in "Can semantic labeling methods generalize to any city? the inria aerial image labeling benchmark," Maggiori et al.. It consists of 360 high-resolution (0.3m) RGB images, each with a size of 5000x5000 pixels. These images are extracted from various internat

Perception AI Remote Sensing Earth Observation +5
unknown Inferred Checked 1mo ago
AI
Dataset Tier A

dronefreak/SeaDronesSee

Official confirmed

SeaDronesSee: Maritime UAV Object Detection Dataset Unofficial redistribution of the SeaDronesSee object-detection (v2) dataset, reformatted into a standardized YOLO-compatible directory layout. Disclaimer This repository is not an official release of the SeaDronesSee dataset. SeaDronesSee was created by Leon Amadeus Varga, Benjamin Kiefer, Martin Messmer, and Andreas Zell at the University of Tüb

Perception AI Object Detection Maritime +6
CC0-1.0 Inferred Checked 1mo ago
AI
Dataset Tier A

dronefreak/UAVid-2020

Official confirmed

UAVid: Aerial Semantic Segmentation Dataset Unofficial redistribution of the UAVid dataset under the original CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Disclaimer This repository is not an official release of the UAVid dataset. The UAVid dataset was created by the original authors, who retain all copyright and intellectual property rights. This repository does not claim ownership of any images, annotations, or met

Perception AI Semantic Segmentation Aerial Imagery +5
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 Inferred Checked 1mo ago
AI
AI Model Tier A

ultralytics/ultralytics

Official confirmed

Ultralytics YOLO26, YOLO11, YOLOv8 — object detection, instance segmentation, semantic segmentation, image classification, pose estimation, object tracking

Perception AI Computer Vision Deep Learning +18
AGPL-3.0 Inferred Checked 16d ago
AI
Official confirmed

This dataset was created using LeRobot. UZH-FPV Drone Racing, 128px, LeRobot format A processed derivative of the UZH-FPV Drone Racing Dataset packaged as a LeRobotDataset (v3): 24 episodes, 24,242 frames of aggressive indoor FPV racing flight, as 128x128 grayscale onboard camera frames with 4D continuous control actions. This is not my recording. All flight data was collected and published by the

Perception AI LeRobot Drone +4
CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 Inferred Checked 1mo ago
AI
Algorithm Tier A

Admire-ljb/VoLN-UAV

Official confirmed

Official code for VoLN: Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation—Paradigm, Benchmark, and Method. An embodied AI UAV benchmark and VoLN-MLLM agent bridging VLN and multimodal LLMs across 7,210 episodes, AirSim, and real-world flights.

Perception AI Airsim Benchmark +8
MIT Inferred Checked 1mo ago
AI
Software Tool Tier A

Megvii-BaseDetection/YOLOX

Official confirmed

YOLOX is a high-performance anchor-free YOLO, exceeding yolov3~v5 with MegEngine, ONNX, TensorRT, ncnn, and OpenVINO supported. Documentation: https://yolox.readthedocs.io/

Perception AI Deep Learning Megengine +9
Apache-2.0 Inferred Checked 1mo ago

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