Table 13 Environmental corruption impact on UAV tracking performance.

From: Advanced algorithms for UAV tracking of targets exhibiting start-stop and irregular motion

Corruption Type

Standard KF

OC-SORT

SFTrack

UAVMOT + AMF

Flow-Guided

SMART-TRACK

Weather Corruptions

Fog

32.1%

41.3%

48.7%

45.2%

52.4%

49.1%

Rain

45.8%

52.6%

58.3%

56.7%

61.2%

59.4%

Snow

38.4%

46.9%

53.1%

50.8%

56.7%

54.3%

Frost

41.2%

48.7%

54.9%

52.3%

58.1%

55.6%

Sensor Corruptions

Gaussian Noise

35.7%

44.2%

50.8%

47.6%

53.9%

51.2%

Impulse Noise

33.9%

42.1%

48.6%

45.8%

52.1%

49.7%

Low Contrast

31.4%

40.6%

47.2%

44.3%

50.8%

48.1%

Blur Corruptions

Motion Blur

29.8%

38.9%

45.3%

42.7%

49.1%

46.8%

Defocus Blur

36.2%

44.8%

51.4%

48.9%

54.6%

52.1%

Composite Corruptions

Rain-Defocus

28.5%

37.2%

43.9%

41.1%

47.6%

45.2%

Rain-Gaussian

22.3%

31.8%

38.4%

35.7%

42.1%

39.6%

Average Performance

34.1%

42.6%

49.1%

46.4%

52.3%

50.1%

  1. Note: Values represent tracking accuracy (HOTA scores) under corruption. Higher values indicate better robustness.