Multi-Stage Feature Enhancement Pyramid Network for Detecting Objects in Optical Remote Sensing Images

Kaihua Zhang, Haikuo Shen
2022 Remote Sensing  
The intelligent detection of objects in remote sensing images has gradually become a research hotspot for experts from various countries, among which optical remote sensing images are considered to be the most important because of the rich feature information, such as the shape, texture and color, that they contain. Optical remote sensing image target detection is an important method for accomplishing tasks, such as land use, urban planning, traffic guidance, military monitoring and maritime
more » ... cue. In this paper, a multi stages feature pyramid network, namely the Multi-stage Feature Enhancement Pyramid Network (Multi-stage FEPN), is proposed, which can effectively solve the problems of blurring of small-scale targets and large scale variations of targets detected in optical remote sensing images. The Content-Aware Feature Up-Sampling (CAFUS) and Feature Enhancement Module (FEM) used in the network can perfectly solve the problem of fusion of adjacent-stages feature maps. Compared with several representative frameworks, the Multi-stage FEPN performs better in a range of common detection metrics, such as model accuracy and detection accuracy. The mAP reaches 0.9124, and the top-1 detection accuracy reaches 0.921 on NWPU VHR-10. The results demonstrate that Multi-stage FEPN provides a new solution for the intelligent detection of targets in optical remote sensing images.
doi:10.3390/rs14030579 doaj:66176a268b9d4a17a6713867fe9d70a0 fatcat:vjhy4lcwmndanovikrdutpob7m