Quantum CNN for Detection and Identification of UAV-Enabled Non-Terrestrial Networks
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Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become essential elements of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) utilized in various sectors, including agriculture, public safety, surveillance, and critical military operations. However, in addition to the benefits of these NTNs, they are increasingly being exploited for malicious purposes, leading to a heightened need for timely detection and identification. Despite advances in UAV detection, challenges remain, particularly in dealing with different UAV types, the payloads they carry, and their flight characteristics. Relying on a single convolutional neural network (CNN) for UAV detection and identification presents difficulties in managing diverse datasets and capturing complex, interdependent relationships. To address this, we propose a novel approach that integrates the visual geometry group-based CNN for UAV detection and the mask region-based CNN for the identification of various traits of UAVs. Additionally, to overcome the computational complexity of deep convolutional layers, we introduce a quantum computation-based CNN (QCNN) instead of the conventional CNN, applied in both the visual geometry group-based detection and mask region-based identification processes, jointly termed VM-QCNN. To effectively deploy VM-QCNN, we enhance the dataset by applying data augmentation techniques, which add diversity to the training data. This ensures the model accurately detects various UAV types, payload categories, and flight characteristics. Performance evaluation through simulations demonstrates that the VM-QCNN approach significantly improves the detection of malicious UAVs compared to competitive algorithms.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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