Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 59, Issue 8, 0810006(2022)

Lightweight Target Detection Algorithm for Small and Weak Drone Targets

Rongqi Jiang1,2、*, Zecong Ye1,2, Yueping Peng2、**, Guorong Xie1,2, and Heng Du3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Graduate Team, Engineering University of PAP, Xi'an , Shaanxi 710086, China
  • 2School of Information Engineering, Engineering University of PAP, Xi'an , Shaanxi 710086, China
  • 3School of Civil Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumqi , Xinjiang 830000, China
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    Partial pictures of datasets. (a) Dataset A; (b) Dataset B
    Analysis of size of drone targets in two datasets. (a) Dataset A; (b) Dataset B
    Structure diagram of YOLOv4-tiny algorithm. (a) YOLOv4-tiny; (b) CSPBlock
    Structure diagram of DTD-YOLOv4-tiny model
    ShuffleNetV2 and improved backbone network structure. (a) ShuffleV2Block; (b) backbone network of ShuffleNetV2; (c) backbone network of proposed algorithm
    FPN structure comparison of different detection models. (a) YOLOv4-tiny; (b) YOLOv4-tiny (YOLO-Head enhancement); (c) DTD-YOLOv4-tiny
    Working principle of reorg_layer
    Working principles of sub-pixel Conv and sub-pixel. (a) Sub-pixel Conv; (b) sub-pixel
    Comparison of accuracy and detection speed of different target detection models under different datasets. (a) Dataset A; (b) Dataset B
    Comparison of partial detection results of test set on different datasets. (a) YOLOv4-tiny (Dataset A); (b) DTD-YOLOv4-tiny (Dataset A); (c) YOLOv4-tiny (Dataset B); (d) DTD-YOLOv4-tiny (Dataset B)
    • Table 1. Performance comparison of different algorithms in MS COCO dataset

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      Table 1. Performance comparison of different algorithms in MS COCO dataset

      AlgorithmImage sizemAP@50 /%GFLOPsDetection speed /(frame·s-1
      YOLOv441665.760.155
      YOLOv3-tiny41633.15.6345
      YOLOv4-tiny41640.26.9330
    • Table 2. Ablation experiment results of DTD-YOLOv4-tiny algorithm

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      Table 2. Ablation experiment results of DTD-YOLOv4-tiny algorithm

      ModelHead improveNeck improveBackbone ImproveAP /%ParametersGFLOPs
      Anchor box imporveYOLO-Head enhancement

      ShuffleV2

      Block(B)

      reorg

      layer

      sub

      pixel

      Shufflev2

      Block(B)

      ShuffleNetv2 BackboneProposed Backbone
      YOLOv4-tiny (Baseline)43.15.8×10612.1
      Imporve A84.15.8×10612.1
      Imporve B91.36.1×10614.3
      Imporve C93.66.8×10617.1
      Imporve D94.56.5×10616.1
      Imporve E87.10.65×1061.9
      Imporve F87.40.64×1062.2
      Imporve G85.30.27×1060.9

      DTD-

      YOLOv4-tiny

      89.40.32×1061.1
    • Table 3. 4 Performance comparison of different algorithms on Dataset A

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      Table 3. 4 Performance comparison of different algorithms on Dataset A

      AlgorithmImage sizeP /%R /%AP /%ParametersGFLOPsGPU /GB
      YOLOv3-SPP416×23493.596.296.8625×106116.93.85
      YOLOv4416×23485.696.695.5639×106105.95.6
      YOLOv4-tiny416×23481.587.684.15.87×10612.10.7
      DTD-YOLOv4-tiny416×23483.586.789.40.327×1061.10.52
      DTD-YOLOv4-tiny608×34288.393.994.20.327×1061.10.583
      DTD-YOLOv4-tiny960×54087.895.695.00.327×1061.11.3
    • Table 4. Performance comparison of different algorithms on Dataset B

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      Table 4. Performance comparison of different algorithms on Dataset B

      ModelImage sizeAP /%Model size
      YOLOv3181333×80084.9234.1 MB
      Fast RCNN(MobileNet)181333×80067.5162.5 MB
      Casacade RCNN(MobileNet)181333×80078.0384.9 MB
      TIB-Net181333×80089.2697.0 KB
      YOLOv4-tiny1344×75678.523 MB
      DTD-YOLOv4-tiny960×54080.31.4 MB
      DTD-YOLOv4-tiny1344×75683.31.4 MB
      DTD-YOLOv4-tiny1920×108085.11.4 MB
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Mar. 16, 2021

    Accepted: Apr. 27, 2021

    Published Online: Apr. 11, 2022

    The Author Email: Jiang Rongqi (jjqqjjqq163@163.com), Peng Yueping (percy001@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202259.0810006

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