# How Far are Modern Trackers from UAV-Anti-UAV? A Million-Scale Benchmark and New Baseline Source: [How Far are Modern Trackers from UAV-Anti-UAV? A Million-Scale Benchmark and New Baseline]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-12-10T05:04:31.849Z Authors: Chunhui Zhang, Li Liu, Zhipeng Zhang, Yong Wang, Hao Wen, Xi Zhou, Shiming Ge, Yanfeng Wang Published: 2025-12-08T10:19:54.000Z ## Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer wide-ranging applications but also pose significant safety and privacy violation risks in areas like airport and infrastructure inspection, spurring the rapid development of Anti-UAV technologies in recent years. However, current Anti-UAV research primarily focuses on RGB, infrared (IR), or RGB-IR videos captured by fixed ground cameras, with little attention to tracking target UAVs from another moving UAV platform. To fill this gap, we propose a new multi-modal visual tracking task termed UAV-Anti-UAV, which involves a pursuer UAV tracking a target adversarial UAV in the video stream. Compared to existing Anti-UAV tasks, UAV-Anti-UAV is more challenging due to severe dual-dynamic disturbances caused by the rapid motion of both the capturing platform and the target. To advance research in this domain, we construct a million-scale dataset consisting of 1,810 videos, each manually annotated with bounding boxes, a language prompt, and 15 tracking attributes. Furthermore, we propose MambaSTS, a Mamba-based baseline method for UAV-Anti-UAV tracking, which enables integrated spatial-temporal-semantic learning. Specifically, we employ Mamba and Transformer models to learn global semantic and spatial features, respectively, and leverage the state space model's strength in long-sequence modeling to establish video-level long-term context via a temporal token propagation mechanism. We conduct experiments on the UAV-Anti-UAV dataset to validate the effectiveness of our method. A thorough experimental evaluation of 50 modern deep tracking algorithms demonstrates that there is still significant room for improvement in the UAV-Anti-UAV domain. The dataset and codes will be available at {\\color{magenta}https://github.com/983632847/Awesome-Multimodal-Object-Tracking}. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. - [Anti-UAV Tracking on Anti-UAV318 (test)](): Anti-UAV Tracking; Anti-UAV318 (test); AUC: 62.5. - [Anti-UAV Tracking on DUT Anti-UAV (test)](): Anti-UAV Tracking; DUT Anti-UAV (test); AUC: 0.613. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()