Detection of objects is extremely important in various aerial vision-based applications. Over the last few years, the methods based on convolution neural networks have made substantial progress. However, because of the large variety of object scales, densities, and arbitrary orientations, the current detectors struggle with the extraction of semantically strong features for small-scale objects by a predefined convolution kernel. To address this problem, we propose the rotation equivariant feature image pyramid network (REFIPN), an image pyramid network based on rotation equivariance convolution. The proposed model adopts single-shot detector in parallel with a lightweight image pyramid module to extract representative features and generate regions of interest in an optimization approach. The proposed network extracts feature in a wide range of scales and orientations by using novel convolution filters. These features are used to generate vector fields and determine the weight and angle of the highest-scoring orientation for all spatial locations on an image. By this approach, the performance for small-sized object detection is enhanced without sacrificing the performance for large-sized object detection. The performance of the proposed model is validated on two commonly used aerial benchmarks and the results show our proposed model can achieve state-of-the-art performance with satisfactory efficiency.
Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学）
This paper proposes a Rotation-equivariant Attention Feature Fusion Pyramid Networks for Aerial Object Detection named ReAFFPN. ReAFFPN aims at improving the effect of rotation-equivariant features fusion between adjacent layers which suffers from the semantic and scale discontinuity. Due to the particularity of rotational equivariant convolution, general methods are unable to achieve their original effect while ensuring rotation equivariance of the network. To solve this problem, we design a new Rotation-equivariant Channel Attention which has the ability to both generate channel attention an…
Building extraction from aerial images has several applications in problems such as urban planning, change detection, and disaster management. With the increasing availability of data, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery has improved significantly in recent years. However, convolutions operate in local neighborhoods and fail to capture non-local features that are essential in semantic understanding of aerial images. In this work, we propose to improve building segmentation of different sizes by capturing long-range dependencies using context…
A robust and fast automatic moving object detection and tracking system is essential to characterize target object and extract spatial and temporal information for different functionalities including video surveillance systems, urban traffic monitoring and navigation, robotic. In this dissertation, I present a collaborative Spatial Pyramid Context-aware moving object detection and Tracking system. The proposed visual tracker is composed of one master tracker that usually relies on visual object features and two auxiliary trackers based on object temporal motion information that will be called …
Veeva Systems（Veeva系统公司）；Lyft Inc（来福车公司）；Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）
Semantic segmentation is in-demand in satellite imagery processing. Because of the complex environment, automatic categorization and segmentation of land cover is a challenging problem. Solving it can help to overcome many obstacles in urban planning, environmental engineering or natural landscape monitoring. In this paper, we propose an approach for automatic multi-class land segmentation based on a fully convolutional neural network of feature pyramid network (FPN) family. This network is consisted of pre-trained on ImageNet Resnet50 encoder and neatly developed decoder. Based on validation …
LAF-YOLOv10 with Partial Convolution Backbone, Attention-Guided Feature Pyramid, Auxiliary P2 Head, and Wise-IoU Loss for Small Object Detection in Drone Aerial Imagery
Department of Information Technology（信息科技系）；Department of Computer Science and Engineering（计算机科学与工程系）
Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）；German Aerospace Center (DLR)（德国航空航天中心）；Technical University of Munich (TUM)（慕尼黑工业大学）；Univ. Grenoble Alpes（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；Grenoble INP（格勒诺布尔国立高等物理、数学与信息学院）；University of Iceland（冰岛大学）
With the rapid development of spaceborne imaging techniques, object detection in optical remote sensing imagery has drawn much attention in recent decades. While many advanced works have been developed with powerful learning algorithms, the incomplete feature representation still cannot meet the demand for effectively and efficiently handling image deformations, particularly objective scaling and rotation. To this end, we propose a novel object detection framework, called optical remote sensing imagery detector (ORSIm detector), integrating diverse channel features extraction, feature learning…
German Aerospace Center（德国航空航天中心）；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）
Automatic multi-class object detection in remote sensing images in unconstrained scenarios is of high interest for several applications including traffic monitoring and disaster management. The huge variation in object scale, orientation, category, and complex backgrounds, as well as the different camera sensors pose great challenges for current algorithms. In this work, we propose a new method consisting of a novel joint image cascade and feature pyramid network with multi-size convolution kernels to extract multi-scale strong and weak semantic features. These features are fed into rotation-b…
ChangeDINO: DINOv3-Driven Building Change Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Imagery
1 Inst.\ of Data Science, National Cheng Kung University, \ , Taiwan - 2 Inst.\ of Intelligent Systems College of Artificial Intelligence, \ Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
High-Frequency Semantics and Geometric Priors for End-to-End Detection Transformers in Challenging UAV Imagery
College of Mathematics and Informatics（数学与信息学院）；South China Agricultural University（华南农业大学）；Key Laboratory of Smart Agricultural Technology in Tropical South China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs（热带南中国智能农业技术重点实验室，农业农村部）；School of Economics and Trade（经济贸易学院）
Road network and building footprint extraction is essential for many applications such as updating maps, traffic regulations, city planning, ride-hailing, disaster response \textit{etc}. Mapping road networks is currently both expensive and labor-intensive. Recently, improvements in image segmentation through the application of deep neural networks has shown promising results in extracting road segments from large scale, high resolution satellite imagery. However, significant challenges remain due to lack of enough labeled training data needed to build models for industry grade applications. I…
Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）；German Aerospace Center（德国航空航天中心）；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；Univ. Grenoble Alpes（格勒诺布尔阿尔卑斯大学）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；Grenoble INP（格勒诺布尔国立理工学院）；University of Iceland（冰岛大学）；Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学）
Geospatial object detection of remote sensing imagery has been attracting an increasing interest in recent years, due to the rapid development in spaceborne imaging. Most of previously proposed object detectors are very sensitive to object deformations, such as scaling and rotation. To this end, we propose a novel and efficient framework for geospatial object detection in this letter, called Fourier-based rotation-invariant feature boosting (FRIFB). A Fourier-based rotation-invariant feature is first generated in polar coordinate. Then, the extracted features can be further structurally refine…
Simons Machine Learning Center（西蒙斯机器学习中心）；New York Structural Biology Center（纽约结构生物学中心）
In many imaging modalities, objects of interest can occur in a variety of locations and poses (i.e. are subject to translations and rotations in 2d or 3d), but the location and pose of an object does not change its semantics (i.e. the object's essence). That is, the specific location and rotation of an airplane in satellite imagery, or the 3d rotation of a chair in a natural image, or the rotation of a particle in a cryo-electron micrograph, do not change the intrinsic nature of those objects. Here, we consider the problem of learning semantic representations of objects that are invariant to p…
Object counting, which aims to count the accurate number of object instances in images, has been attracting more and more attention. However, challenges such as large scale variation, complex background interference, and non-uniform density distribution greatly limit the counting accuracy, particularly striking in remote sensing imagery. To mitigate the above issues, this paper proposes a novel framework for dense object counting in remote sensing images, which incorporates a pyramidal scale module (PSM) and a global context module (GCM), dubbed PSGCNet, where PSM is used to adaptively capture…
Autoregressive models are a class of exact inference approaches with highly flexible functional forms, yielding state-of-the-art density estimates for natural images. Yet, the sequential ordering on the dimensions makes these models computationally expensive and limits their applicability to low-resolution imagery. In this work, we propose Pixel-Pyramids, a block-autoregressive approach employing a lossless pyramid decomposition with scale-specific representations to encode the joint distribution of image pixels. Crucially, it affords a sparser dependency structure compared to fully autoregres…
DAS-SK: An Adaptive Model Integrating Dual Atrous Separable and Selective Kernel CNN for Agriculture Semantic Segmentation
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of Lakehead University（拉夫莱德大学电气与计算机工程系）；Faculty of Software Engineering of Lakehead University（拉夫莱德大学软件工程系）；Faculty of Applied Science of the University of Alabama（阿拉巴马大学应用科学系）；School of Computer Science Engineering and Information Systems, Vellore Institute of Technology（维洛雷理工学院计算机科学工程与信息系统学院）
Global surface water detection in very-high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery can directly serve major applications such as refined flood mapping and water resource assessment. Although achievements have been made in detecting surface water in small-size satellite images corresponding to local geographic scales, datasets and methods suitable for mapping and analyzing global surface water have yet to be explored. To encourage the development of this task and facilitate the implementation of relevant applications, we propose the GLH-water dataset that consists of 250 satellite images and manual…
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial component of 6-DoF localization, visual SLAM and structure-from-motion pipelines, tasked to generate an initial list of place match hypotheses by matching global place descriptors. However, commonly-used CNN-based methods either process multiple image resolutions after training or use a single resolution and limit multi-scale feature extraction to the last convolutional layer during training. In this paper, we augment NetVLAD representation learning with low-resolution image pyramid encoding which leads to richer place representations. The resultant …
LeafInst - Unified Instance Segmentation Network for Fine-Grained Forestry Leaf Phenotype Analysis: A New UAV based Benchmark
organization= College of Information Science；Technology \& Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Forestry University , city= Nanjing , postcode= 210037 , state= Jiangsu , country= China；organization= Department of Geography, College of Natural Resources；organization= Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University , city= Nanjing , postcode= 210037 , state= Jiangsu , country= China；organization= School of Architecture \& Urban Planning, Shenzhen University , city= Shenzhen , postcode= 518060 , state= Guangdong , country= China；organization= School of Software, Hefei University of Technology , city= Hefei , postcode= 230601 , state= Anhui , country= China
Equivariant-Aware Structured Pruning for Efficient Edge Deployment: A Comprehensive Framework with Adaptive Fine-Tuning
Faculty of Computers and Information Technology, University of Tabuk（计算机与信息科技学院，塔布克大学）；Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Technologies (AIST) Research Center, University of Tabuk（人工智能与传感技术（AIST）研究中心，塔布克大学）
Recent research on the application of remote sensing and deep learning-based analysis in precision agriculture demonstrated a potential for improved crop management and reduced environmental impacts of agricultural production. Despite the promising results, the practical relevance of these technologies for field deployment requires novel algorithms that are customized for analysis of agricultural images and robust to implementation on natural field imagery. The paper presents an approach for analyzing aerial images of a potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) crop using deep neural networks. The main ob…
A DeNoising FPN With Transformer R-CNN for Tiny Object Detection
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（电子工程系，阳明交通大学）；Institute of Electronics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（电子研究所，阳明交通大学）；Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU)（计算机科学与信息工程系，国立台湾大学）
Generalization-Enhanced Few-Shot Object Detection in Remote Sensing
China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology（中国电子科技集团公司电子科学研究院）；National Satellite Meteorological Center（国家卫星气象中心）；Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite（风云气象卫星创新中心）；China Meteorological Administration（中国气象局）；Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院空天信息创新研究院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing（北京科技大学自动化与电气工程学院）；New York University Abu Dhabi（纽约大学阿布扎比分校）
Southwest Jiaotong University（西南交通大学）；Central South University（中南大学）
Accurately and efficiently extracting building footprints from a wide range of remote sensed imagery remains a challenge due to their complex structure, variety of scales and diverse appearances. Existing convolutional neural network (CNN)-based building extraction methods are complained that they cannot detect the tiny buildings because the spatial information of CNN feature maps are lost during repeated pooling operations of the CNN, and the large buildings still have inaccurate segmentation edges. Moreover, features extracted by a CNN are always partial which restricted by the size of the r…
RareSpot: Spotting Small and Rare Wildlife in Aerial Imagery with Multi-Scale Consistency and Context-Aware Augmentation
University of California, Santa Barbara（加州大学圣芭芭拉分校）；Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute（史密森尼国家动物园与保护生物学研究所）；Stanford University（斯坦福大学）
In spite of the many advantages of aerial imagery for crowd monitoring and management at mass events, datasets of aerial images of crowds are still lacking in the field. As a remedy, in this work we introduce a novel crowd dataset, the DLR Aerial Crowd Dataset (DLR-ACD), which is composed of 33 large aerial images acquired from 16 flight campaigns over mass events with 226,291 persons annotated. To the best of our knowledge, DLR-ACD is the first aerial crowd dataset and will be released publicly. To tackle the problem of accurate crowd counting and density map estimation in aerial images of cr…
Enhancing sea ice segmentation in Sentinel-1 images with atrous convolutions
University of Colorado Boulder（科罗拉多大学博尔德分校）；Norwegian Meteorological Institute（挪威气象研究所）；National Snow and Ice Data Center（国家冰雪数据中心）；CIRES（CIRES（环境科学研究合作研究所））
本文针对 Sentinel-1 SAR 海冰制图自动化难题，提出结合 ResNet 与空洞空间金字塔池化的分割方法，在 Extreme Earth version 2 数据集上实现高效、抗噪的海冰与冰型分类，性能优于基线 U-Net。
