JUITA : Jurnal Informatika
JUITA Vol. 13 Issue 3, November 2025

A Comparative Evaluation of Drone Detection Models on Aerial Imageryacross Varying Training Epochs

Astika Ayuningtyas (Institut Teknologi Dirgantara Adisutjipto)
Imam Riadi (Universitas Ahmad Dahlan)
Anton Yudhana (Universitas Ahmad Dahlan)



Article Info

Publish Date
08 Nov 2025

Abstract

Drone detection in aerial imagery has become increasingly important in security, surveillance, and military applications. This study aims to evaluate the performance of a deep learning model in detecting drone images by varying the number of training epochs (10, 20, and 50 epochs). A drone image dataset was used to train and test the model, with performance evaluated using precision, recall, mAP@0.5, and mAP@0.5:0.95 metrics. The experimental results indicate that increasing the number of epochs significantly enhances model performance. At 10 epochs, the model achieved a precision of 0.905, recall of 0.857, mAP@0.5 of 0.904, and mAP@0.5:0.95 of 0.455. At 20 epochs, recall improved to 0.879, and mAP@0.5:0.95 increased to 0.476. The best performance was observed at 50 epochs, with a precision of 0.918, recall of 0.886, mAP@0.5 of 0.920, and mAP@0.5:0.95 of 0.494. These findings demonstrate that increasing the number of training epochs not only improves detection accuracy but also enhances the model's generalization capability. The study concludes that training for 50 epochs is the optimal configuration for achieving the best performance in drone image detection, despite requiring longer training time. These results provide practical recommendations for implementing deep learning models in real-world drone detection applications.

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Journal Info

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JUITA

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Subject

Computer Science & IT

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UITA: Jurnal Informatika is a science journal and informatics field application that presents articles on thoughts and research of the latest developments. JUITA is a journal peer reviewed and open access. JUITA is published by the Informatics Engineering Study Program, Universitas Muhammadiyah ...