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A novel method for vehicle detection in high-resolution aerial remote sensing images using YOLT approach

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Owing to the innovative challenge stood by an intergovernmental military alliance, we have proposed a model to find novel solutions in the areas of data filtering/combining, visualization, and predictive analytics. Detecting tiny objects over huge zones has stayed as a major confront in satellite imagery examination. Among the confronts, the absolute quantity of pixels and topographical degree per picture are principle things. To deal with these issues, Multi-Scale Swift Detection System using COWC dataset to localize vehicles, i.e., cars in aerial imagery rapidly is implemented. We propose a model, Multiscale swift detection system that evaluates the satellite-images of an arbitrarily large size at a rate of 0.2 km2/s in the confined resolution. Forging over the TensorFlow object-detection API paper [11], this model provides an integrated tactic to various object-detection frameworks that can sprint interpretation on images of random size. The Multiscale swift detection system includes a customized version-type of YOLO, known as YOLT. The approach can hastily detect objects of infinitely various scales with comparatively less training data upon multiple sensors. It can quickly detect objects of immensely diverse scales with comparatively modest training data over several sensors. For the object detection area of the work, we use the COWC dataset, which features aerial imagery taken in different locations. Here the mean size of cars is assumed to be roughly constant. We assess bulky test-images at confined resolution and discover mAP scores of 0.2 to 0.8 for the vehicle-localization. Also computed a yield score of F1 > 0.8 attaining both the highest mAP value and rapid inference speed with the YOLT architecture.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore institute of Technology, Vellore, India

    Lavanya K & Sarayu Karnick

  2. School of Science, Engineering & Computing, De Montfort University, Dubai, UAE

    Muhammad Rukunuddin Ghalib

  3. School of Engineering & Technology, Amity University, Noida, India

    Achyut Shankar

  4. Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Department,, IIIT Naya Raipur, India

    Shailesh Khapre

  5. Faculty of Computing and Information Technology in Rabigh, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Iftikhar Aslam Tayubi

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K, L., Karnick, S., Ghalib, M.R. et al. A novel method for vehicle detection in high-resolution aerial remote sensing images using YOLT approach. Multimed Tools Appl 81, 23551–23566 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12613-9

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