A COARSE-TO-FINE MODEL FOR AIRPLANE DETECTION FROM LARGE REMOTE SENSING IMAGES USING SALIENCY MODLE AND DEEP LEARNING

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

Song, Z. N.^1¹  Sui, H. G.^2² 

[1] Remote Sensing and Information Engineering. College of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China^1;State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China^2

关键词: Airplane Detection;    Large-Scale;    Optical Remote Sensing Image;    Object of Interest;    Saliency Detection;    Single Neural Network;   

DOI  :  10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-1571-2018

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

来源: Copernicus Publications

【 摘 要 】

High resolution remote sensing images are bearing the important strategic information, especially finding some time-sensitive-targets quickly, like airplanes, ships, and cars. Most of time the problem firstly we face is how to rapidly judge whether a particular target is included in a large random remote sensing image, instead of detecting them on a given image. The problem of time-sensitive-targets target finding in a huge image is a great challenge: 1) Complex background leads to high loss and false alarms in tiny object detection in a large-scale images. 2) Unlike traditional image retrieval, what we need to do is not just compare the similarity of image blocks, but quickly find specific targets in a huge image. In this paper, taking the target of airplane as an example, presents an effective method for searching aircraft targets in large scale optical remote sensing images. Firstly, we used an improved visual attention model utilizes salience detection and line segment detector to quickly locate suspected regions in a large and complicated remote sensing image. Then for each region, without region proposal method, a single neural network predicts bounding boxes and class probabilities directly from full images in one evaluation is adopted to search small airplane objects. Unlike sliding window and region proposal-based techniques, we can do entire image (region) during training and test time so it implicitly encodes contextual information about classes as well as their appearance. Experimental results show the proposed method is quickly identify airplanes in large-scale images.

【 授权许可】

CC BY