Title
Multi Feature Deconvolutional Faster R-CNN for Precise Vehicle Detection in Aerial Imagery
Abstract
Accurate detection of objects in aerial images is an important task for many applications such as traffic monitoring, surveillance, reconnaissance and rescue tasks. Recently, deep learning based detection frameworks clearly improved the detection performance on aerial images compared to conventional methods comprised of hand-crafted features and a classifier within a sliding window approach. These deep learning based detection frameworks use the output of the last convolutional layer as feature map for localization and classification. Due to the small size of objects in aerial images, only shallow layers of standard models like VGG-16 or small networks are applicable in order to provide a sufficiently high feature map resolution. However, high-resolution feature maps offer less semantic and contextual information, which results in approaches being more prone to false alarms due to objects with similar shapes especially in case of tiny objects. In this paper, we extend the Faster R-CNN detection framework to cope this issue. Therefore, we apply a deconvolutional module that up-samples low-dimensional feature maps of deep layers and combines the up-sampled features with the features of shallow layers while the feature map resolution is kept sufficiently high to localize tiny objects. Our proposed deconvolutional framework clearly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on two publicly available datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/WACV.2018.00075
2018 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
Keywords
Field
DocType
tiny objects,Faster R-CNN detection framework,low-dimensional feature maps,deep layers,shallow layers,deconvolutional framework,multifeature deconvolutional Faster R-CNN,precise vehicle detection,aerial imagery,traffic monitoring,reconnaissance,rescue tasks,deep learning,detection performance,sliding window approach,convolutional layer,high-resolution feature maps
Computer vision,Sliding window protocol,Similarity (geometry),Pattern recognition,Computer science,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Classifier (linguistics),Image resolution,Detector,Semantics
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2472-6737
978-1-5386-4887-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lars Wilko Sommer1319.49
Arne Schumann28514.01
Tobias Schuchert39312.21
Jürgen Beyerer431575.37