Title
Anchor-Free Oriented Proposal Generator for Object Detection
Abstract
Oriented object detection is a practical and challenging task in remote sensing image interpretation. Nowadays, oriented detectors mostly use horizontal boxes as intermedium to derive oriented boxes from them. However, the horizontal boxes are inclined to get small Intersection-over-Unions (IoUs) with ground truths, which may have some undesirable effects, such as introducing redundant noise, mismatching with ground truths, and detracting from the robustness of detectors. In this article, we propose a novel anchor-free oriented proposal generator (AOPG) that abandons horizontal box-related operations from the network architecture. AOPG first produces coarse oriented boxes by a coarse location module (CLM) in an anchor-free manner and then refines them into high-quality oriented proposals. After AOPG, we apply a Fast Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (R-CNN) head to produce the final detection results. Furthermore, the shortage of large-scale datasets is also a hindrance to the development of oriented object detection. To alleviate the data insufficiency, we release a new dataset on the basis of our DIOR dataset and name it DIOR-R. Massive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of AOPG. Particularly, without bells and whistles, we achieve the accuracy of 64.41%, 75.24%, and 96.22% mAP on the DIOR-R, DOTA, and HRSC2016 datasets, respectively. Code and models are available at https://github.com/jbwang1997/AOPG.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TGRS.2022.3183022
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Proposals, Detectors, Object detection, Generators, Feature extraction, Remote sensing, Shape, Anchor-free oriented proposal generator (AOPG), oriented object detection, oriented proposal generation
Journal
60
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0196-2892
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gong Cheng1102040.17
Jiabao Wang201.69
Ke Li311.72
Xingxing Xie400.34
Chunbo Lang500.34
Yanqing Yao600.34
Junwei Han73501194.57