학술논문

An Adaptive Sample Assignment Network for Tiny Object Detection
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia IEEE Trans. Multimedia Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on. 26:2918-2931 2024
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
General Topics for Engineers
Semantics
Object detection
Feature extraction
Task analysis
Heating systems
Focusing
Redundancy
Tiny object detection
sample assignment strategy
focus enhancement
adaptive cropping method
Language
ISSN
1520-9210
1941-0077
Abstract
Tiny objects often have a small proportion of pixels in the image, leading to significant differences in the number of positive and negative samples and the lack of feature information. Accurately determining the position and category of tiny objects remains a huge challenge for object detection research. Therefore, we design an Adaptive Sample Assignment Strategy(ASAS) and tiny object focusing enhancement module to solve the above two problems. Specifically, starting from the study of positive and negative sample selection and balance strategies for tiny objects, we construct a lightweight Object Existence Probability Determination Network (OEPD/Net) to focus on the areas where tiny objects exist, and achieve adaptive assignment and balance of samples. A top/down, layer by layer focusing enhancement module is designed to effectively enhance the propagation ability of high/level semantic information for tiny objects. The above two solutions have excellent generalization and migration capabilities and can be applied to any stage and two-stage object detection network, effectively enhancing TOD performance. Finally, this article provides a performance analysis of detection performance the detection network based on the OEPD/Net output results, and demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed OEPD-Net and focusing enhancement module through extensive experiments on a public dataset.