SHIELD8-UAV: Sequential 8-bit Hardware Implementation of a Precision-Aware 1D-F-CNN for Low-Energy UAV Acoustic Detection and Temporal Tracking

Susmita Ghanta, Karan Nathwani, Rohit Chaurasiya

Real-time unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) acoustic detection at the edge demands low-latency inference under strict power and hardware limits. This paper presents SHIELD8-UAV, a sequ…