Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 39, Issue 6, 0615001(2019)

Enhancement of Single Shot Multibox Detector for Aerial Infrared Target Detection

Jiangrong Xie1,2,3, Fanming Li1,3、*, Hong Wei1, Bing Li1, and Baotai Shao1,2,3
Author Affiliations
  • 1 Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
  • 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3 Key Laboratory of Infrared System Detection and Imaging Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
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    Figures & Tables(10)
    Structure of SSD network
    Schematics of multiple feature fusion methods. (a) Pooling; (b) transposed deconvolution; (c) bi-direction fusion
    Diagram of semantic segmentation branch
    Comparison of detection results of small targets obtained by original SSD and improved SSD. (a) Original SSD; (b) improved model
    Detection results of infrared aerial targets
    Comparison of recall-precision curve of infrared aerial targets
    • Table 1. Convolution receptive field and mapping image region of default boxes of SSD_300×300

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      Table 1. Convolution receptive field and mapping image region of default boxes of SSD_300×300

      Convolutional layerConvolutional receptive field /(pixel×pixel)Output scale of feature layer /(pixel×pixel)Default boxes ratioMapping region scale /(pixel×pixel)
      conv4_392×9238×380.1030×30
      conv7276×27619×190.2060×60
      conv8_2340×34010×100.37111×111
      conv9_2468×4685×50.54162×162
      conv10_2724×7243×30.71213×213
      conv11_2980×9801×10.88264×264
    • Table 2. Small object detection results of VOC2007 dataset

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      Table 2. Small object detection results of VOC2007 dataset

      MethodmAPDetection result
      Aero planeBirdBoatBottleCarDogSheepPerson
      SSD_300×3000.5370.6010.5250.4260.3740.7200.5560.5380.563
      Proposed method0.6080.6850.5700.5340.5030.7480.5970.6520.591
    • Table 3. Aerial target detection results of infrared dataset

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      Table 3. Aerial target detection results of infrared dataset

      MethodmAPDetection result
      Fighter_JHelicopterFighter_SAirlinerBird
      SSD_300×3000.6180.6590.6150.2660.8190.732
      YOLOv3-3200.6410.7300.5480.3140.8670.747
      Proposed method0.7050.7840.6360.4850.8220.796
    • Table 4. Number of predictive boxes for each classi?ed network and speed comparison

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      Table 4. Number of predictive boxes for each classi?ed network and speed comparison

      MethodNumber of boxesTotal boxesFPS
      75×7538×3819×1910×105×53×31×1
      Original SSD0466644873225.2
      Modified SSD4444444302609.4
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    Jiangrong Xie, Fanming Li, Hong Wei, Bing Li, Baotai Shao. Enhancement of Single Shot Multibox Detector for Aerial Infrared Target Detection[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2019, 39(6): 0615001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Dec. 18, 2018

    Accepted: Feb. 19, 2019

    Published Online: Jun. 17, 2019

    The Author Email: Li Fanming (lfmjws@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS201939.0615001

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