Open AccessAirport small object detection based on feature enhancement
Author(s) -
Zhu Xuan,
Liang Binbin,
Fu Daoyong,
Huang Guoxin,
Yang Fan,
Li Wei
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iet image processing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.401
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1751-9667
pISSN - 1751-9659
DOI - 10.1049/ipr2.12387
Subject(s) - computer science , feature (linguistics) , artificial intelligence , object detection , computer vision , context (archaeology) , scale (ratio) , pattern recognition (psychology) , feature extraction , object (grammar) , geography , philosophy , linguistics , cartography , archaeology
Video object detection is essential for airport surface surveillance, but the objects on the scene are mostly small objects with low resolution, they have no obvious feature information. Due to the scale differences of the objects and the fixed receptive field on the feature maps, detectors cannot model multi‐scale context information and cover all objects. In addition, although the video detection algorithm can be used as a method to solve the problem of small object detection, the temporal feature fusion method of current video detection is very dependent on the quality of a single feature map. Therefore, this paper aims to enhance the features of small objects of a single image. First, an attentional multi‐scale feature fusion enhancement (A‐MSFFE) network is built on the memory‐enhanced global‐local aggregation (MEGA) to supplement semantic and spatial information of small objects. Then, a context feature enhancement (CFE) module is designed for obtaining different receptive fields through different dilated convolutions. Meanwhile, a video detection dataset about the airport is established. Finally, the experimental results show that the proposed method can improve the detection accuracies of small objects and outperform other state‐of‐the‐art video object detection algorithms in self‐built airport dataset.