학술논문

Lightweight Context Awareness and Feature Enhancement for Anchor-Free Remote- Sensing Target Detection
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Sensors Journal IEEE Sensors J. Sensors Journal, IEEE. 24(7):10714-10726 Apr, 2024
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Robotics and Control Systems
Remote sensing
Object detection
Feature extraction
Convolution
Optical sensors
Optical imaging
Task analysis
Anchor-free
complex background
remote-sensing images
small objects
target detection
Language
ISSN
1530-437X
1558-1748
2379-9153
Abstract
Optical remote-sensing image target detection holds significant research significance in various domains, including disaster relief, ecological environment protection, and military surveillance. However, since remote-sensing images have multiscale targets, complex backgrounds, and many small targets, the performance of the existing network models in remote-sensing image target detection cannot reach what we expect. In addition, we note that current networks use complex computational mechanisms that make the models time-consuming, which hinders their practicability in remote-sensing target detection scenarios. In response to this challenge, we propose an anchor-free and efficient one-stage target detection method for optical remote-sensing images. First, we propose the lightweight context-aware module GSelf-Attention, injected into the feature fusion network from top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top to enhance the feature information interaction. Second, we proposed that ELAN-RSN uses an optimized residual shrinkage network (RSN) to eliminate background noise and conflicting information in the multiscale feature fusion. Finally, we introduce the decoupled head fused with SPDConv to enhance the detection accuracy of small target objects further. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with that of other advanced methods on DIOR and RSOD datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm significantly improves object detection accuracy while ensuring detection efficiency and has high robustness. The code is available at https://github.com/FF-codeHouse/Object-Detection/tree/remote-sensing.