RTDOD: A large-scale RGB-thermal domain-incremental object detection dataset for UAVs

Hangtao Feng, Lu Zhang, Siqi Zhang, Dong Wang, Xu Yang, Zhiyong Liu

Abstract: Highlights•Introduction of a pioneering RGB-Thermal domain-incremental object detection dataset for UAVs.•Presentation of the Modal-aware Gate-guide Faster-R-CNN model.•Enhanced feature extraction from thermal images using RGB-T self-distillation.•Modal-aware fusion mechanism improves RGB-Thermal feature combination.