In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have seen significant technological advances, with a wide range of applications. However, their arbitrary uses continue to pose a great threat to public safety and privacy. This has sparked the interest of the research community, which is developing solutions based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to detect and track in real time these unmanned flying objects in sensitive areas. In this paper, we propose a vision-based Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithm to track drones in various simulated scenarios, within the Microsoft AirSim simulator. The proposed approach is promising and achieves high tracking accuracy in different realistic simulated environments. It allowed to process videos at high frame rates and achieved a mean average precision (mAP) above 80%.
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