Title
RADet: Refine Feature Pyramid Network and Multi-Layer Attention Network for Arbitrary-Oriented Object Detection of Remote Sensing Images
Abstract
Object detection has made significant progress in many real-world scenes. Despite this remarkable progress, the common use case of detection in remote sensing images remains challenging even for leading object detectors, due to the complex background, objects with arbitrary orientation, and large difference in scale of objects. In this paper, we propose a novel rotation detector for remote sensing images, mainly inspired by Mask R-CNN, namely RADet. RADet can obtain the rotation bounding box of objects with shape mask predicted by the mask branch, which is a novel, simple and effective way to get the rotation bounding box of objects. Specifically, a refine feature pyramid network is devised with an improved building block constructing top-down feature maps, to solve the problem of large difference in scales. Meanwhile, the position attention network and the channel attention network are jointly explored by modeling the spatial position dependence between global pixels and highlighting the object feature, for detecting small object surrounded by complex background. Extensive experiments on two remote sensing public datasets, DOTA and NWPUVHR -10, show our method to outperform existing leading object detectors in remote sensing field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/rs12030389
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
remote sensing,arbitrary-oriented object detection,feature pyramid network,attention mechanism,mask
Computer vision,Object detection,Multi layer,Remote sensing,Attention network,Pyramid,Artificial intelligence,Geology
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
12
3
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yangyang Li120920.02
Qin Huang23011.60
Xuan Pei330.40
Licheng Jiao45698475.84
Ronghua Shang555633.57