Title
A fast self-attention cascaded network for object detection in large scene remote sensing images
Abstract
Aiming at the real-time detection of multiple objects and micro-objects in large-scene remote sensing images, a cascaded convolutional neural network real-time object-detection framework for remote sensing images is proposed, which integrates visual perception and convolutional memory network reasoning. The detection framework is composed of two fully convolutional networks, namely, the strengthened object self-attention pre-screening fully convolutional network (SOSA-FCN) and the object accurate detection fully convolutional network (AD-FCN). SOSA-FCN introduces a self-attention module to extract attention feature maps and constructs a deep feature pyramid to optimize the attention feature maps by combining convolutional long-term and short-term memory networks. It guides the acquisition of potential sub-regions of the object in the scene, reduces the computational complexity, and enhances the network’s ability to extract multi-scale object features. It adapts to the complex background and small object characteristics of a large-scene remote sensing image. In AD-FCN, the object mask and object orientation estimation layer are designed to achieve fine positioning of candidate frames. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with that of other advanced methods on NWPU_VHR-10, DOTA, UCAS-AOD, and other open datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm significantly improves the efficiency of object detection while ensuring detection accuracy and has high adaptability. It has extensive engineering application prospects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.asoc.2020.106495
Applied Soft Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Remote sensing images,Deep learning,Neural network,Visual perception,Object detection
Journal
94
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1568-4946
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hua Xia165.24
Xinqing Wang254.31
Ting Rui300.34
Haitao Zhang400.34
Dong Wang51351186.07