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Arbitrary-oriented object detection via dense feature fusion and attention model for remote sensing super-resolution image

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In this paper, we aim at developing a new arbitrary-oriented end-to-end object detection method to further push the frontier of object detection for remote sensing image. The proposed method comprehensively takes into account multiple strategies, such as attention mechanism, feature fusion, rotation region proposal as well as super-resolution pre-processing simultaneously to boost the performance in terms of localization and classification under the faster RCNN-like framework. Specifically, a channel attention network is integrated for selectively enhancing useful features and suppressing useless ones. Next, a dense feature fusion network is designed based on multi-scale detection framework, which fuses multiple layers of features to improve the sensitivity to small objects. In addition, considering the objects for detection are often densely arranged and appear in various orientations, we design a rotation anchor strategy to reduce the redundant detection regions. Extensive experiments on two remote sensing public datasets DOTA, NWPU VHR-10 and scene text dataset ICDAR2015 demonstrate that the proposed method can be competitive with or even superior to the state-of-the-art ones, like R2CNN and R2CNN++.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61672254, 61672246, 61572221 and 61300222, Program for Hust Academic Frontier Youth Team, Key project of National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant No. U1536203, Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province Grant No. 2015CFB687 and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, HUST: 2016YXMS088 and 2016YXMS018. The authors appreciate the valuable suggestions from the anonymous reviewers and the Editors.

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    Fuhao Zou, Wei Xiao, Kunkun He & Kai Li

  2. School of Natural and Computational Science, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

    Wanting Ji

  3. Wuhan Digital Engineering Research Institute, Wuhan, China

    Zhixiang Yang

  4. Innovation Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

    Jingkuan Song

  5. School of Engineering, Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Helen Zhou

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Zou, F., Xiao, W., Ji, W. et al. Arbitrary-oriented object detection via dense feature fusion and attention model for remote sensing super-resolution image. Neural Comput & Applic 32, 14549–14562 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-04893-9

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