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ZoomInNet: A Novel Small Object Detector in Drone Images with Cross-Scale Knowledge Distillation

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العنوان: ZoomInNet: A Novel Small Object Detector in Drone Images with Cross-Scale Knowledge Distillation
المؤلفون: Bi-Yuan Liu, Huai-Xin Chen, Zhou Huang, Xing Liu, Yun-Zhi Yang
المصدر: Remote Sensing; Volume 13; Issue 6; Pages: 1198
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: small object detection, drone image, image pyramid, feature enhancement, cross-scale knowledge distillation
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: Drone-based object detection has been widely applied in ground object surveillance, urban patrol, and some other fields. However, the dramatic scale changes and complex backgrounds of drone images usually result in weak feature representation of small objects, which makes it challenging to achieve high-precision object detection. Aiming to improve small objects detection, this paper proposes a novel cross-scale knowledge distillation (CSKD) method, which enhances the features of small objects in a manner similar to image enlargement, so it is termed as ZoomInNet. First, based on an efficient feature pyramid network structure, the teacher and student network are trained with images in different scales to introduce the cross-scale feature. Then, the proposed layer adaption (LA) and feature level alignment (FA) mechanisms are applied to align the feature size of the two models. After that, the adaptive key distillation point (AKDP) algorithm is used to get the crucial positions in feature maps that need knowledge distillation. Finally, the position-aware L2 loss is used to measure the difference between feature maps from cross-scale models, realizing the cross-scale information compression in a single model. Experiments on the challenging Visdrone2018 dataset show that the proposed method draws on the advantages of the image pyramid methods, while avoids the large calculation of them and significantly improves the detection accuracy of small objects. Simultaneously, the comparison with mainstream methods proves that our method has the best performance in small object detection.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Remote Sensing Image Processing; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13061198
DOI: 10.3390/rs13061198
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13061198
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.71E270B0
قاعدة البيانات: BASE