scholarly journals YOLOv3 Object Detection Algorithm with Feature Pyramid Attention for Remote Sensing Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 4537
Author(s):  
Zhe Cheng ◽  
Jingguo Lv ◽  
Anqi Wu ◽  
Ningning Qu
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Jiangqiao Yan ◽  
Liangjin Zhao ◽  
Wenhui Diao ◽  
Hongqi Wang ◽  
Xian Sun

As a precursor step for computer vision algorithms, object detection plays an important role in various practical application scenarios. With the objects to be detected becoming more complex, the problem of multi-scale object detection has attracted more and more attention, especially in the field of remote sensing detection. Early convolutional neural network detection algorithms are mostly based on artificially preset anchor-boxes to divide different regions in the image, and then obtain the prior position of the target. However, the anchor box is difficult to set reasonably and will cause a large amount of computational redundancy, which affects the generality of the detection model obtained under fixed parameters. In the past two years, anchor-free detection algorithm has achieved remarkable development in the field of detection on natural image. However, there is no sufficient research on how to deal with multi-scale detection more effectively in anchor-free framework and use these detectors on remote sensing images. In this paper, we propose a specific-attention Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) module, which is able to generate a feature pyramid, basing on the characteristics of objects with various sizes. In addition, this pyramid suits multi-scale object detection better. Besides, a scale-aware detection head is proposed which contains a multi-receptive feature fusion module and a size-based feature compensation module. The new anchor-free detector can obtain a more effective multi-scale feature expression. Experiments on challenging datasets show that our approach performs favorably against other methods in terms of the multi-scale object detection performance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (17) ◽  
pp. 5778
Author(s):  
Ting Wang ◽  
Changqing Cao ◽  
Xiaodong Zeng ◽  
Zhejun Feng ◽  
Jingshi Shen ◽  
...  

In recent years, remote sensing technology has developed rapidly, and the ground resolution of spaceborne optical remote sensing images has reached the sub-meter range, providing a new technical means for aircraft object detection. Research on aircraft object detection based on optical remote sensing images is of great significance for military object detection and recognition. However, spaceborne optical remote sensing images are difficult to obtain and costly. Therefore, this paper proposes the aircraft detection algorithm, itcan detect aircraft objects with small samples. Firstly, this paper establishes an aircraft object dataset containing weak and small aircraft objects. Secondly, the detection algorithm has been proposed to detect weak and small aircraft objects. Thirdly, the aircraft detection algorithm has been proposed to detect multiple aircraft objects of varying sizes. There are 13,324 aircraft in the test set. According to the method proposed in this paper, the f1 score can achieve 90.44%. Therefore, the aircraft objects can be detected simply and efficiently by using the method proposed. It can effectively detect aircraft objects and improve early warning capabilities.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangyang Li ◽  
Qin Huang ◽  
Xuan Pei ◽  
Licheng Jiao ◽  
Ronghua Shang

Object detection has made significant progress in many real-world scenes. Despite this remarkable progress, the common use case of detection in remote sensing images remains challenging even for leading object detectors, due to the complex background, objects with arbitrary orientation, and large difference in scale of objects. In this paper, we propose a novel rotation detector for remote sensing images, mainly inspired by Mask R-CNN, namely RADet. RADet can obtain the rotation bounding box of objects with shape mask predicted by the mask branch, which is a novel, simple and effective way to get the rotation bounding box of objects. Specifically, a refine feature pyramid network is devised with an improved building block constructing top-down feature maps, to solve the problem of large difference in scales. Meanwhile, the position attention network and the channel attention network are jointly explored by modeling the spatial position dependence between global pixels and highlighting the object feature, for detecting small object surrounded by complex background. Extensive experiments on two remote sensing public datasets, DOTA and NWPUVHR -10, show our method to outperform existing leading object detectors in remote sensing field.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaoyue Chen ◽  
Weiguo Gong ◽  
Yongliang Chen ◽  
Weihong Li

Object detection has attracted increasing attention in the field of remote sensing image analysis. Complex backgrounds, vertical views, and variations in target kind and size in remote sensing images make object detection a challenging task. In this work, considering that the types of objects are often closely related to the scene in which they are located, we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) by combining scene-contextual information for object detection. Specifically, we put forward the scene-contextual feature pyramid network (SCFPN), which aims to strengthen the relationship between the target and the scene and solve problems resulting from variations in target size. Additionally, to improve the capability of feature extraction, the network is constructed by repeating a building aggregated residual block. This block increases the receptive field, which can extract richer information for targets and achieve excellent performance with respect to small object detection. Moreover, to improve the proposed model performance, we use group normalization, which divides the channels into groups and computes the mean and variance for normalization within each group, to solve the limitation of the batch normalization. The proposed method is validated on a public and challenging dataset. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art object detection models.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 2416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuangzhuang Tian ◽  
Ronghui Zhan ◽  
Jiemin Hu ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Zhiqiang He ◽  
...  

Nowadays, object detection methods based on deep learning are applied more and more to the interpretation of optical remote sensing images. However, the complex background and the wide range of object sizes in remote sensing images increase the difficulty of object detection. In this paper, we improve the detection performance by combining the attention information, and generate adaptive anchor boxes based on the attention map. Specifically, the attention mechanism is introduced into the proposed method to enhance the features of the object regions while reducing the influence of the background. The generated attention map is then used to obtain diverse and adaptable anchor boxes using the guided anchoring method. The generated anchor boxes can match better with the scene and the objects, compared with the traditional proposal boxes. Finally, the modulated feature adaptation module is applied to transform the feature maps to adapt to the diverse anchor boxes. Comprehensive evaluations on the DIOR dataset demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over the state-of-the-art methods, such as RetinaNet, FCOS and CornerNet. The mean average precision of the proposed method is 4.5% higher than the feature pyramid network. In addition, the ablation experiments are also implemented to further analyze the respective influence of different blocks on the performance improvement.


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