Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs10101516
Keywords
airport detection; remote sensing images; region-based convolutional neural networks; divide and conquer; integral loss; hard example mining
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- Aeronautical Science Foundation of China [20175896022]
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Fast and accurate airport detection in remote sensing images is important for many military and civilian applications. However, traditional airport detection methods have low detection rates, high false alarm rates and slow speeds. Due to the power convolutional neural networks in object-detection systems, an end-to-end airport detection method based on convolutional neural networks is proposed in this study. First, based on the common low-level visual features of natural images and airport remote sensing images, region-based convolutional neural networks are chosen to conduct transfer learning for airport images using a limited amount of data. Second, to further improve the detection rate and reduce the false alarm rate, the concepts of divide and conquer and integral loss'' are introduced to establish cascade region proposal networks and multi-threshold detection networks, respectively. Third, hard example mining is used to improve the object discrimination ability and the training efficiency of the network during sample training. Additionally, a cross-optimization strategy is employed to achieve convolution layer sharing between the cascade region proposal networks and the subsequent multi-threshold detection networks, and this approach significantly decreases the detection time. The results show that the method established in this study can accurately detect various types of airports in complex backgrounds with a higher detection rate, lower false alarm rate, and shorter detection time than existing airport detection methods.
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