Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 6, Pages 1758-1770Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2019.2905881
Keywords
Object detection; Feature extraction; Detectors; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Deconvolution; Photography; Remote sensing; Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) image; small object detection; feature fusion; feature scaling; single shot detector; spatial context analysis
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61531006, 61602018, 61701011]
- Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation Cooperation Beijing Education Committee [KZ 201810005002, KZ 201910005007]
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Objects in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images are generally small due to the high-photography altitude. Although many efforts have been made in object detection, how to accurately and quickly detect small objects is still one of the remaining open challenges. In this paper, we propose a feature fusion and scaling-based single shot detector (FS-SSD) for small object detection in the UAV images. The FS-SSD is an enhancement based on FSSD, a variety of the original single shot multibox detector (SSD). We add an extra scaling branch of the deconvolution module with an average pooling operation to form a feature pyramid. The original feature fusion branch is adjusted to be better suited to the small object detection task. The two feature pyramids generated by the deconvolution module and feature fusion module are utilized to make predictions together. In addition to the deep features learned by the FS-SSD, to further improve the detection accuracy, spatial context analysis is proposed to incorporate the object spatial relationships into object redetection. The interclass and intraclass distances between different object instances are computed as a spatial context, which proves effective for multiclass small object detection. Six experiments are conducted on the PASCAL VOC dataset and the two UAV image datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve a comparable detection speed but an accuracy superior to those of the six state-of-the-art methods.
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