4 August 2022 Adaptive weighted multiscale feature fusion for small drone object detection
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Abstract

Drone object detection in low-altitude airspace plays an essential role in many practical applications, such as security and airspace monitoring. Despite the remarkable progress made by many methods, drone object detection still remains challenging due to the complex background and huge differences in scales of drones. To address the above issues, an improved fully convolutional one-stage object detection (FCOS) model based on adaptive weighted feature fusion (AWFF) module is proposed for multiscale drone object detection in complex background. By learning the spatial relevance of feature maps at each scale and improving the scale invariance of features based on the channel attention mechanism, AWFF module could adaptively fuse the features of adjacent scale. In addition, a receptive field enhancement module is designed to reduce the information loss in the feature fusion process. Extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed module and method on the constructed low-altitude drone dataset, which concludes that the mean average precision of the AWFF-FCOS is increased by 2.1% compared with the baseline method. And extensive ablation experiments further demonstrate that the proposed AWFF module and REF module could be integrated into the state-of-the-art method to improve the performance of drone object detection.

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Yuman Yuan, Hongwei Guo, Hongyang Bai, and Weiwei Qin "Adaptive weighted multiscale feature fusion for small drone object detection," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 16(3), 034517 (4 August 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.16.034517
Received: 14 March 2022; Accepted: 18 July 2022; Published: 4 August 2022
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KEYWORDS
Convolution

Sensors

Image fusion

Image processing

Information security

Neural networks

Feature extraction

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