Title
GLE-Net: A Global and Local Ensemble Network for Aerial Object Detection
Abstract
Recent advances in camera-equipped drone applications increased the demand for visual object detection algorithms with deep learning for aerial images. There are several limitations in accuracy for a single deep learning model. Inspired by ensemble learning can significantly improve the generalization ability of the model in the machine learning field, we introduce a novel integration strategy to combine the inference results of two different methods without non-maximum suppression. In this paper, a global and local ensemble network (GLE-Net) was proposed to increase the quality of predictions by considering the global weights for different models and adjusting the local weights for bounding boxes. Specifically, the global module assigns different weights to models. In the local module, we group the bounding boxes that corresponding to the same object as a cluster. Each cluster generates a final predict box and assigns the highest score in the cluster as the score of the final predict box. Experiments on benchmarks VisDrone2019 show promising performance of GLE-Net compared with the baseline network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s44196-021-00056-3
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Aerial images object detection, VisDrone2019 dataset, Deep learning, Ensemble algorithm
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1875-6883
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiajia Liao101.69
Yujun Liu201.69
Yingchao Piao300.34
Jinhe Su400.34
Guorong Cai500.34
Yundong Wu610.73