Object detection is important in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) reconnaissance missions. However, since a UAV flies at a high altitude to gain a large reconnaissance view, the captured objects often have small pixel sizes and their categories have high uncertainty. Given the limited computing capability on UAVs, large detectors based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have difficulty obtaining real-time detection performance. To address these problems, we designed a small-object detector for UAV-based images in this paper. We modified the backbone of YOLOv4 according to the characteristics of small-object detection. We improved the performance of small-object positioning by modifying the positioning loss function. Using the distance metric method, the proposed detector can classify trained and untrained objects through object features. Furthermore, we designed two data augmentation strategies to enhance the diversity of the training set. We evaluated our method on a collected small-object dataset; the proposed method obtained 61.00% m A P 50 on trained objects and 41.00% m A P 50 on untrained objects with 77 frames per second (FPS). Flight experiments confirmed the utility of our approach on small UAVs, with satisfying detection performance and real-time inference speed.


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    Titel :

    Small-Object Detection for UAV-Based Images Using a Distance Metric Method


    Beteiligte:
    Helu Zhou (Autor:in) / Aitong Ma (Autor:in) / Yifeng Niu (Autor:in) / Zhaowei Ma (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt





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