# Quickest Detection of Intermittent Signals With Application to Vision Based Aircraft Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09846 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.09846/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 26 Apr 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [A Dataset of Stationary, Fixed-wing Aircraft on a Collision Course for Vision-Based Sense and Avoid](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.02735/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper we consider the problem of quickly detecting changes in an intermittent signal that can (repeatedly) switch between a normal and an anomalous state. We pose this intermittent signal detection problem as an optimal stopping problem and establish a quickest intermittent signal detection (ISD) rule with a threshold structure. We develop bounds to characterise the performance of our ISD rule and establish a new filter for estimating its detection delays. Finally, we examine the performance of our ISD rule in both a simulation study and an important vision based aircraft detection application where the ISD rule demonstrates improvements in detection range and false alarm rates relative to the current state of the art aircraft detection techniques.