Review-Budget-Constrained Calibration for Low-IoU UAV Object-Presence Triage

This is the standalone project directory for the GRSL-oriented manuscript:

Review-Budget-Constrained Calibration for Low-IoU UAV Object-Presence Triage

The current framing is a per-cache operating-point calibration protocol for frozen UAV detector outputs. A bounded miss-weighted loss alone can admit low-threshold cluttered rows because the FP term saturates. The manuscript therefore adds a hard image-unit review budget, FP/image <= 25, and reports a one-sided finite-sample loss bound on a disjoint AITOD validation audit.

Main result: on AITOD at IoU 0.25, the train-side conservative min-FP rule selects an RT-DETR-L 640+960 NMS+cap row at threshold 0.125. On validation it passes with U_H=0.1496, precision 0.4886, and 12.03 FP/image, reducing review boxes by 64.1% relative to raw 960. The same fixed threshold does not transfer to an AITOD-trained YOLO-family cache, but the same budget-constrained procedure calibrates a detector-specific YOLO-family row at threshold 0.015 that passes with U_H=0.1541 and 20.77 FP/image.

The supported claim is narrow: low-IoU image-review triage for frozen target caches. The manuscript does not claim detector-agnostic thresholds, deployment safety, sequence-level certification, source transfer, or IoU 0.50 localization control.

Main Files

• paper/main.tex: canonical LaTeX entry point.
• paper/main.pdf: current compiled manuscript.
• paper/PAPER_CLAIM_AUDIT.md: claim-to-CSV audit for the active manuscript.
• paper/REPRODUCIBILITY_CARD.md: cache provenance, scripts, and reported outputs.
• paper/IEEEtran.cls and paper/IEEEtran.bst: local IEEEtran/GRSL-compatible template files.

Recompile

From this directory:

cd paper
latexmk -pdf -file-line-error -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error main.tex

The active manuscript compiles under \documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran} and is kept within the GRSL letter page limit.

Layout

• paper/: manuscript source, compiled PDFs, template files, and audit cards.
• paper/sections/: LaTeX section files.
• paper/figures/: manuscript figures.
• scripts/: experiment and table-generation scripts used by the paper.
• scripts/l1_clear_accept_evidence.py: builds the review-budget calibration evidence tables.
• scripts/build_aitod_yolo_family_cache.py: builds the AITOD YOLO-family cache used for the second-detector stress test.
• output/tables/: result tables and audit CSVs.
• submission_upload/: staged GRSL submission bundles.

Some historical output filenames retain aitod_uavdt as a legacy contract/script tag from earlier cache routing. The dataset field inside released tables is authoritative; AITOD public tables have been corrected to dataset=aitod, with the repair listed in output/tables/metadata_corrections_audit.csv.