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A Method for Designated Target Anti-Interference Tracking Combining YOLOv5 and SiamRPN for UAV Tracking and Landing Control

Remote Sens. 2022, 14(12), 2825; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14122825
by Dong Wu 1,2, Hang Zhu 1,2,* and Yubin Lan 3
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Reviewer 3:
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(12), 2825; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14122825
Submission received: 29 April 2022 / Revised: 10 June 2022 / Accepted: 10 June 2022 / Published: 12 June 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Progress in UAV-AI Remote Sensing)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This paper applies vision-based target detection and tracking on the application of UAV landing. A comparison between the proposed work and related works [17-21] is missing. The paper is written well but still requires some typing error check. For exampe: DTRT in page 11 (should be DTAT?), 60 cm in length and 5 cm in width in page 5 (should be 50cm?)

 

Author Response

Thanks very much for taking your time to review this manuscript entitled “A method for designated target anti-interference tracking combining YOLOv5 and SiamRPN for UAV tracking and landing control” (ID: remotesensing-1726916). We really appreciate all your generous comments and suggestions! We have tried our best to revise the manuscript according to your kind and construction comments and suggestions. Please find our itemized responses in below and my revisions in the resubmitted files.

 

Point 1: A comparison between the proposed work and related works [17-21] is missing.

 

Response 1: We are much obliged about your suggestion. We have included a comparison of this work with related work in lines 68 to 69 and 72 to 73.

 

Point 2: DTRT in page 11 (should be DTAT?)

 

Response 2: We are very sorry for the mistake, it has been revised now in line 343.

 

Point 3: 60 cm in length and 5 cm in width in page 5 (should be 50cm?)

 

Response 3: We are very sorry for the typing error, it has been revised now in line 164.

 

We sincerely hope that this revised manuscript has addressed all your comments and suggestions. We appreciated for your warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval. Once again, thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.

 

Yours sincerely,

Hang Zhu Ph.D.

2022.06.04

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Editor,

my comments for Authors:

  1. abstract, all acronyms must be explained, e.g. GPS, PID, ROS etc.
  2. line 46-54, please add more papers about UAV positioning using e.g. SBAS system (EGNOS, SDCM etc)
  3. algorithm (1-11), please check if all symbols are explained in text.
  4. discussion, please also compare your solution with scientific knowledge analysis (e.g. papers from References). Why your solution is better? 
  5. References, please add more papers, see point 2.

 

Author Response

We deeply appreciate the time and great effort you spent in reviewing our manuscript entitled “A method for designated target anti-interference tracking combining YOLOv5 and SiamRPN for UAV tracking and landing control” (ID: remotesensing-1726916). We have studied comments carefully and have made a lot of correction which we hope meet with approval. Those comments are all valuable and helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our research. Your comments have been responded in point-by-point manner and are listed as follows:

 

Point 1: Abstract, all acronyms must be explained, e.g. GPS, PID, ROS etc.

Response 1: Thanks for your suggestion and we have explained all acronyms in line 13-14,23,26.

Point 2: Line 46-54, please add more papers about UAV positioning using e.g. SBAS system (EGNOS, SDCM etc)

Response 2: Thanks for your professional suggestion and we have added two SBAS system related to this paper in line 49.

Point 3: Algorithm (1-11), please check if all symbols are explained in text.

Response 3: We are much obliged about your suggestion and we added explanations of the symbols in lines 241-243.

Point 4: Discussion, please also compare your solution with scientific knowledge analysis (e.g. papers from References). Why your solution is better?

Response 4: It is really true as you suggest, and we added the comparison and analysis with related work in lines 428-431.

Point 5: References, please add more papers, see point 2.

Response 5: Thanks for the reviewer’s kind and insightful comment. We have added some papers in line 49.

 

We sincerely hope that this revised manuscript has addressed all your comments and suggestions. We appreciated for your warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval. Once again, thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.

Yours sincerely,

Hang Zhu Ph.D.

2022.06.04

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear Author, 

Please address the following comments in your revised manuscript.

Comments:

 

  1. Line 46, please rephrase this as "people." It is better to use words like "researcher" or "scholar" etc.
  1. Lines 72 - 74 Please try to avoid long and broad sentences. It is better to use small but well-connected sentence structures.
  1. Lines 521–523 should be rephrased and converted to small sentences.
  1. Line 94, 125 and across the article, please try to avoid using "I, we and our", rather use "Author(s)" or in this research, or in this study etc.
  1. Line 99 is confusing. Please rephrase it.
  1. Line 143 CVPR stands for?
  1. Line 170 – 180. Please rephrase this whole paragraph and include more details.
  1. Line 189. Please rephrase this sentence.
  1. Figure: 343,353,400Which figure number?
  1. Line 346 – 437, Please rephrase it.

 

  1. Line 521 – 523. This seems confusing. Please rephrase this sentence. Please try to avoid long and complex sentence structures.

Thank you.

Good Luck.

Author Response

Thank you for your review report concerning our manuscript entitled “A method for designated target anti-interference tracking combining YOLOv5 and SiamRPN for UAV tracking and landing control” (ID: remotesensing-1726916). We are extremely grateful to Reviewer for pointing out the problems. According to your advice, we amended the relevant part in manuscript. The main corrections were shown by “Track changes” in the manuscript and in-depth response to your comments are as following:

 

Point 1: Line 46, please rephrase this as "people." It is better to use words like "researcher" or "scholar" etc.

 

Response 1: Thanks for your professional suggestions. We have changed the word in line 47.

 

Point 2: Lines 72 - 74 Please try to avoid long and broad sentences. It is better to use small but well-connected sentence structures.

 

Response 2: It’s truly as you said and we have modified the statement structure in lines 75-79.

 

Point 3: Lines 521–523 should be rephrased and converted to small sentences.

 

Response 3: Thanks for your suggestions and we have adjusted the statement length in lines 527-530.

 

Point 4: Line 94, 125 and across the article, please try to avoid using "I, we and our", rather use "Author(s)" or in this research, or in this study etc.

 

Response 4: We are much obliged about your suggestion. We have modified the words in lines 98, 129.

 

Point 5: Line 99 is confusing. Please rephrase it.

 

Response 5: It’s truly as you said and we have clarified the company name in line 102. The system uses a DF500-1944P industrial camera (Jieruiweitong Inc.), which is small in size and convenient to carry.

 

Point 6: Line 143 CVPR stands for?

 

Response 6: We are sorry for not clarifying the meaning of the proper noun. CVPR abbreviation of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference. We have added it on line 147.

 

Point 7: Line 170 – 180. Please rephrase this whole paragraph and include more details.

 

Response 7: Thanks for your suggestion and we have adjusted the statement structure. The detail description of the DTAT method is given in lines 185-203

 

Point 8: Line 189. Please rephrase this sentence.

 

Response 8: Thanks for your suggestions and we clarified the definition of IoU and adjusted the statement structure in lines 191-194.

 

Point 9: Figure: 343,353,400. Which figure number?

 

Response 9: We are much obliged about your suggestion. We specify the figure information in line 344, 356, and 403.

 

Point 10: Line 346 – 437, Please rephrase it.

 

Response 10: Thanks for your professional suggestions and we have adjusted the structure of statement.

 

Point 11: Line 521 – 523. This seems confusing. Please rephrase this sentence. Please try to avoid long and complex sentence structures.

 

Response 11: We are very sorry for confusing. we have adjusted the sentence structure in lines 526-530.

 

We sincerely hope that this revised manuscript has addressed all your comments and suggestions. We appreciated for your warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval. Once again, thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.

 

Yours sincerely,

Hang Zhu Ph.D.

2022.06.04

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear Authors,

Please write line 147 "Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference" in a small case.

Also fix the reference section broken lines.

Please give complete proofreading for the final version submission.

Thank you.

Author Response

Response to Reviewer 3 Comments

Thank you for your review report concerning our manuscript entitled “A method for designated target anti-interference tracking combining YOLOv5 and SiamRPN for UAV tracking and landing control” (ID: remotesensing-1726916). We are extremely grateful to Reviewer for pointing out the problems. According to your advice, we amended the relevant part in manuscript. The main corrections were shown by “Track changes” in the manuscript and in-depth response to your comments are as following:

 

Point 1: Please write line 147 "Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference" in a small case.

 

Response 1: We are very sorry for the mistake, the "Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference" has been revised in a small case now in line 147.

 

Point 2: Also fix the reference section broken lines.

 

Response 2: The time of the original conference paper is on a separate line and we have fixed the reference section broken lines according to the MDPI format. Specific literature numbers include 4,6,7,9,10,12,17,19,20,21,22,26 in lines 559-611.

 

We sincerely hope that this revised manuscript has addressed all your comments and suggestions. We appreciated for your warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval. Once again, thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.

 

Yours sincerely,

Hang Zhu Ph.D.

2022.06.08

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

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