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<p>Although object detection has achieved great success in the field of computer vision in the past few years, the performance of detecting small objects has not yet achieved ideal results. For instance, UAV aerial photography object detection plays an important role in traffic monitoring and other fields, but it faces some great challenges. The objects in aerial images are mainly small objects, the resolution of whom is low and the feature expression ability of whom is very weak. Information will be lost in high-dimensional feature maps, and this information is very important for the classification and positioning of small objects. The most common way to improve small object detection accuracy is to use high-resolution images, but this incurs additional computational costs. To address the above-mentioned problems, this article proposes a new model SINextNet, which uses a new dilated convolution module SINext block. This module is based on depth-separable convolution, and can improve the receptive field of the model. While extracting small object features, it can combine small object features with background information, greatly improving the feature expression ability of small objects. The experimental results indicate that the method proposed in this paper can achieve advanced performance across multiple aerial datasets.</p>
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Although object detection has achieved great success in the field of computer vision in the past few years, the performance of detecting small objects has not yet achieved ideal results. For instance, UAV aerial photography object detection plays an important role in traffic monitoring and other fields, but it faces some great challenges. The objects in aerial images are mainly small objects, the resolution of whom is low and the feature expression ability of whom is very weak. Information will be lost in high-dimensional feature maps, and this information is very important for the classification and positioning of small objects. The most common way to improve small object detection accuracy is to use high-resolution images, but this incurs additional computational costs. To address the above-mentioned problems, this article proposes a new model SINextNet, which uses a new dilated convolution module SINext block. This module is based on depth-separable convolution, and can improve the receptive field of the model. While extracting small object features, it can combine small object features with background information, greatly improving the feature expression ability of small objects. The experimental results indicate that the method proposed in this paper can achieve advanced performance across multiple aerial datasets.

Sinextnet: A New Small Object Detection Model for Aerial Images Based on PP-Yoloe

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research

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Although object detection has achieved great success in the field of computer vision in the past few years, the performance of detecting small objects has not...

Sinextnet: A New Small Object Detection Model for Aerial Images Based on PP-Yoloe

Published Online: Jun 11, 2024

Page range: 251 - 265

Received: Jan 23, 2024

Accepted: May 02, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jaiscr-2024-0014

Keywords
object detection, UAV aerial photography, small object

© 2024 Wenkang Zhang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Sinextnet: A New Small Object Detection Model for Aerial Images Based on PP-Yoloe

Published Online: Jun 11, 2024

Page range: 251 - 265

Received: Jan 23, 2024

Accepted: May 02, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jaiscr-2024-0014

Keywordsobject detection, UAV aerial photography, small object

© 2024 Wenkang Zhang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
object detection, UAV aerial photography, small object