UAV multitarget detection plays a pivotal role in civil and military fields. Although deep learning methods provide a more effective solution to this task, changes in target size, shape change, occlusion, and lighting conditions from the perspective of drones still bring great challenges to research in this field. Based on the above problems, this paper proposes an aerial image detection model with excellent performance and strong robustness. First, in view of the common problem that small targets in aerial images are prone to misdetection and missed detection, the idea of Bi-PAN-FPN is introduced to improve the neck part in YOLOv8-s. By fully considering and reusing multiscale features, a more advanced and complete feature fusion process is achieved while maintaining the parameter cost as much as possible. Second, the GhostblockV2 structure is used in the backbone of the benchmark model to replace part of the C2f module, which suppresses information loss during long-distance feature transmission while significantly reducing the number of model parameters; finally, WiseIoU loss is used as bounding box regression loss, combined with a dynamic nonmonotonic focusing mechanism, and the quality of anchor boxes is evaluated by using “outlier” so that the detector takes into account different quality anchor boxes to improve the overall performance of the detection task. The algorithm’s performance is compared and evaluated on the VisDrone2019 dataset, which is widely used worldwide, and a detailed ablation experiment, contrast experiment, interpretability experiment, and self-built dataset experiment are designed to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed model. The results show that the proposed aerial image detection model has achieved obvious results and advantages in various experiments, which provides a new idea for the deployment of deep learning in the field of UAV multitarget detection.


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    Title :

    A Modified YOLOv8 Detection Network for UAV Aerial Image Recognition


    Contributors:
    Yiting Li (author) / Qingsong Fan (author) / Haisong Huang (author) / Zhenggong Han (author) / Qiang Gu (author)


    Publication date :

    2023




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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