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Federated learning for UAV surveillance with camera vision and radar point cloud data fusion to enhance sensing-assisted communication

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Zhibo Zhang
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Kaiquan Cai
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Liang Zhao
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Leyan Chen
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Hongshuo Lyu
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Peng Zhao *
DOI:10.1016/j.dcan.2026.05.003delete
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With the rapid expansion of the low-altitude economy, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been increasingly adopted for a wide range of civilian applications. Nevertheless, their large-scale deployment imposes substantial challenges on existing surveillance and communication infrastructures. This paper presents a Federated Learning (FL)-based UAV surveillance framework that fuses camera vision and radar point cloud data to enhance sensing-assisted communication. Each client performs local model training with multi-modal data, and the server aggregates parameters to build a privacy-preserving global model. A lightweight multi-modal neural network jointly processes radar and vision data to achieve efficient UAV detection. Experiments on the DeepSense dataset and a real-world testbed achieve average precisions of 90.41% and 97.95%, respectively. Communication simulations further demonstrate an average channel capacity improvement of up to 6% over camera-only baselines, confirming that the proposed FL-based multi-modal fusion framework enhances UAV detection accuracy and communication efficiency while offering a scalable solution for future intelligent low-altitude network systems.
Keywords:
Sensing-assisted communication
Unmanned aerial vehicle
Low-altitude surveillance
Multi-modal perception
Federated learning
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Digital Communications and Networks
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