Title
Progressive structure network-based multiscale feature fusion for object detection in real-time application
Abstract
Deep learning-based target detection techniques have already made a wide-range impact on our daily life. Currently, a feature pyramid is a widely utilized technique for multiscale target detection, the effectiveness of the technique has already been proved. Nevertheless, in the pyramid structure, problems, such as multiscale feature alignment, model turmoil after fusion, feature redundancy, and no-local feature fusion, exist. In this paper, we propose a novel progressive structure network to solve the aforementioned problems. The proposed structure contains three modules: multiscale feature alignment fusion, different scale channels & spatial location adaptive weighted fusion, and multiscale global and local feature fusion. The proposed structure is capable of fusing information from different feature layers more effectively. Subsequently, the semantic gaps among different scales can be reduced. Furthermore, the proposed structure can maintain the stability of the detection network and its performance has been proved by comparing with other state-of-art feature fusion method. The proposed progressive network structure has also been applied to actual target detection tasks and the practical application effectiveness of our method has been verified.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.engappai.2021.104486
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Feature fusion,Deep learning,Object detection,Machine learning
Journal
106
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0952-1976
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haifeng Wang101.01
Lvjiyuan Jiang200.34
Qian Zhao300.34
Hao Li441.07
Kai Yan500.68
Yang Yang6373.20
Songlin Li700.34
Yungang Zhang800.34
Lianliu Qiao900.34
Cuilian Fu1000.34
Hong Yin1100.34
Yun Hu1200.34
Haibin Yu1300.34