Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 12, 1228007(2023)

Improved Aircraft Detection of Optical Remote Sensing Image Based on Faster R-CNN

Xin Yang, Qiong Wang, Yazhou Yao, and Zhenmin Tang*
Author Affiliations
  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, Jiangsu, China
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    Figures & Tables(18)
    Faster R-CNN algorithm framework after basic module introduced
    Structure of ResNet50
    Structure of ResNet50 and FPN
    Structure of CBAM
    Cutting process of sliding window
    Post-processing of prediction results
    Examples of aircraft categories
    Distribution of aircraft number by class
    Distribution of aircraft size
    Feature map before adding channel attention
    Feature map after adding channel attention
    Feature map comparison before and after adding spatial attention.(a) Input; (b) feature map of channel 14 that is not added to CBAM; (c) feature map of channel 14 after CBAM added
    Comparison before and after use of post-processing
    • Table 1. Performance comparison of feature extraction network before and after lightweight

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      Table 1. Performance comparison of feature extraction network before and after lightweight

      Feature extraction networkmF1Size /106FPS
      ResNet5085.982241.916.3
      ResNet41-387.480225.818.2
      Res2Net5078.855941.614.1
      Res2Net41-383.005625.515.7
      ResNext10159.866260.010.6
      ResNext92-377.356844.411.4
      ResNet50+FPN-486.583041.417.1
    • Table 2. Performance comparison of different target detection algorithms before and after lightweight

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      Table 2. Performance comparison of different target detection algorithms before and after lightweight

      MethodmF1Size /106FPS
      Faster R-CNN+ResNet5085.982241.916.3
      Faster R-CNN+ResNet41-387.480225.818.2
      Cascade R-CNN+ResNet5087.174069.210.7
      Cascade R-CNN+ResNet41-388.534653.112.9
      FCOS+ResNet5074.134832.116.9
      FCOS+ResNet41-378.877116.118.5
    • Table 3. Performance comparison of different target detection tasks before and after lightweight

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      Table 3. Performance comparison of different target detection tasks before and after lightweight

      DatasetMethodmF1Size /106FPS
      RSAICP-planeFaster R-CNN+ResNet5085.982241.916.3
      Faster R-CNN+ResNet41-387.480225.818.2
      SAR-shipFaster R-CNN+ResNet5090.274841.933.1
      Faster R-CNN+ResNet41-391.161725.837.9
      CASIA-aircraftFaster R-CNN+ResNet5096.933042.125.5
      Faster R-CNN+ResNet41-397.324026.027.8
    • Table 4. Performance comparison of CBAM attention mechanism

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      Table 4. Performance comparison of CBAM attention mechanism

      Feature extraction networkmF1Size /106FPS
      ResNet4187.480225.818.2
      ResNet41-3_CBAM-1687.767725.800515.3
      ResNet41-3_CBAM-888.780325.80115.3
      ResNet41-3_CBAM-487.974525.80215.3
    • Table 5. Experiment results of midline single frame prediction and multi-scale training

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      Table 5. Experiment results of midline single frame prediction and multi-scale training

      Feature extraction networkmF1
      ResNet41-387.4802
      ResNet41-3_ms88.9047
      ResNet41-3_ms*88.9465
      ResNet41-3_CBAM-888.7803
      ResNet41-3_CBAM-8_ms88.7926
      ResNet41-3_CBAM-8_ms*88.9682
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    Xin Yang, Qiong Wang, Yazhou Yao, Zhenmin Tang. Improved Aircraft Detection of Optical Remote Sensing Image Based on Faster R-CNN[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(12): 1228007

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    Paper Information

    Category: Remote Sensing and Sensors

    Received: May. 24, 2022

    Accepted: Jul. 4, 2022

    Published Online: Jun. 5, 2023

    The Author Email: Zhenmin Tang (tzm.cs@njust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP221679

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