Improved object detection algorithms for optical aerial images based on region proposal network

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxing Lin ◽  
Liaoni Wu ◽  
Bo Huang ◽  
Boyong He
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 159-165
Author(s):  
JAYANTH DWIJESH H P ◽  
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SANDEEP S V ◽  
RASHMI S ◽  
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In today’s world, accurate and fast information is vital for safe aircraft landings. The purpose of an EMAS (Engineered Materials Arresting System) is to prevent an aeroplane from overrunning with no human injury and minimal damage to the aircraft. Although various algorithms for object detection analysis have been developed, only a few researchers have examined image analysis as a landing assist. Image intensity edges are employed in one system to detect the sides of a runway in an image sequence, allowing the runway’s 3-dimensional position and orientation to be approximated. A fuzzy network system is used to improve object detection and extraction from aerial images. In another system, multi-scale, multiplatform imagery is used to combine physiologically and geometrically inspired algorithms for recognizing objects from hyper spectral and/or multispectral (HS/MS) imagery. However, the similarity in the top view of runways, buildings, highways, and other objects is a disadvantage of these methods. We propose a new method for detecting and tracking the runway based on pattern matching and texture analysis of digital images captured by aircraft cameras. Edge detection techniques are used to recognize runways from aerial images. The edge detection algorithms employed in this paper are the Hough Transform, Canny Filter, and Sobel Filter algorithms, which result in efficient detection.


Author(s):  
Jiajia Liao ◽  
Yujun Liu ◽  
Yingchao Piao ◽  
Jinhe Su ◽  
Guorong Cai ◽  
...  

AbstractRecent advances in camera-equipped drone applications increased the demand for visual object detection algorithms with deep learning for aerial images. There are several limitations in accuracy for a single deep learning model. Inspired by ensemble learning can significantly improve the generalization ability of the model in the machine learning field, we introduce a novel integration strategy to combine the inference results of two different methods without non-maximum suppression. In this paper, a global and local ensemble network (GLE-Net) was proposed to increase the quality of predictions by considering the global weights for different models and adjusting the local weights for bounding boxes. Specifically, the global module assigns different weights to models. In the local module, we group the bounding boxes that corresponding to the same object as a cluster. Each cluster generates a final predict box and assigns the highest score in the cluster as the score of the final predict box. Experiments on benchmarks VisDrone2019 show promising performance of GLE-Net compared with the baseline network.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 3118
Author(s):  
Danqing Xu ◽  
Yiquan Wu

High-altitude remote sensing target detection has problems related to its low precision and low detection rate. In order to enhance the performance of detecting remote sensing targets, a new YOLO (You Only Look Once)-V3-based algorithm was proposed. In our improved YOLO-V3, we introduced the concept of multi-receptive fields to enhance the performance of feature extraction. Therefore, the proposed model was termed Multi-Receptive Fields Fusion YOLO (MRFF-YOLO). In addition, to address the flaws of YOLO-V3 in detecting small targets, we increased the detection layers from three to four. Moreover, in order to avoid gradient fading, the structure of improved DenseNet was chosen in the detection layers. We compared our approach (MRFF-YOLO) with YOLO-V3 and other state-of-the-art target detection algorithms on an Remote Sensing Object Detection (RSOD) dataset and a dataset of Object Detection in Aerial Images (UCS-AOD). With a series of improvements, the mAP (mean average precision) of MRFF-YOLO increased from 77.10% to 88.33% in the RSOD dataset and increased from 75.67% to 90.76% in the UCS-AOD dataset. The leaking detection rates are also greatly reduced, especially for small targets. The experimental results showed that our approach achieved better performance than traditional YOLO-V3 and other state-of-the-art models for remote sensing target detection.


Author(s):  
Kun Ding ◽  
Guojin He ◽  
Huxiang Gu ◽  
Zisha Zhong ◽  
Shiming Xiang ◽  
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Author(s):  
Samuel Humphries ◽  
Trevor Parker ◽  
Bryan Jonas ◽  
Bryan Adams ◽  
Nicholas J Clark

Quick identification of building and roads is critical for execution of tactical US military operations in an urban environment. To this end, a gridded, referenced, satellite images of an objective, often referred to as a gridded reference graphic or GRG, has become a standard product developed during intelligence preparation of the environment. At present, operational units identify key infrastructure by hand through the work of individual intelligence officers. Recent advances in Convolutional Neural Networks, however, allows for this process to be streamlined through the use of object detection algorithms. In this paper, we describe an object detection algorithm designed to quickly identify and label both buildings and road intersections present in an image. Our work leverages both the U-Net architecture as well the SpaceNet data corpus to produce an algorithm that accurately identifies a large breadth of buildings and different types of roads. In addition to predicting buildings and roads, our model numerically labels each building by means of a contour finding algorithm. Most importantly, the dual U-Net model is capable of predicting buildings and roads on a diverse set of test images and using these predictions to produce clean GRGs.


Author(s):  
Jinwang Wang ◽  
Wen Yang ◽  
Haowen Guo ◽  
Ruixiang Zhang ◽  
Gui-Song Xia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 2318
Author(s):  
Darío G. Lema ◽  
Oscar D. Pedrayes ◽  
Rubén Usamentiaga ◽  
Daniel F. García ◽  
Ángela Alonso

The recognition of livestock activity is essential to be eligible for subsides, to automatically supervise critical activities and to locate stray animals. In recent decades, research has been carried out into animal detection, but this paper also analyzes the detection of other key elements that can be used to verify the presence of livestock activity in a given terrain: manure piles, feeders, silage balls, silage storage areas, and slurry pits. In recent years, the trend is to apply Convolutional Neuronal Networks (CNN) as they offer significantly better results than those obtained by traditional techniques. To implement a livestock activity detection service, the following object detection algorithms have been evaluated: YOLOv2, YOLOv4, YOLOv5, SSD, and Azure Custom Vision. Since YOLOv5 offers the best results, producing a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.94, this detector is selected for the creation of a livestock activity recognition service. In order to deploy the service in the best infrastructure, the performance/cost ratio of various Azure cloud infrastructures are analyzed and compared with a local solution. The result is an efficient and accurate service that can help to identify the presence of livestock activity in a specified terrain.


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