This invention discloses a real-time target detection and
recognition system and method for UAV imagery. The
system adopts an edge-cloud
collaborative processing architecture, including an airborne
processing unit and a cloud-based collaborative
server. The airborne unit is equipped with an adaptive lightweight detection network to perform preliminary detection on real-time imagery and output results with uncertainty scores. An intelligent collaborative gateway filters high-uncertainty targets based on dynamic collaborative thresholds, extracts relevant image regions, and uploads them to the cloud. The
cloud server deploys a high-precision model for
verification and sends the results back to the airborne unit for fusion, outputting the final detection result. This
system achieves a balance between detection accuracy and real-time performance under limited airborne resources through dynamic adjustment of the airborne
network structure, bandwidth-based dynamic threshold decision-making, and
online model optimization mechanisms based on cloud feedback, thereby improving the robustness and efficiency of UAV target detection in complex scenarios.