Advanced Scale-aware Attention for Enhanced Tiny Object Detection in Remote Sensing

Tingting Qiao, He Chen, Bingqian Chai, Wenchao Liu, Guijie Qi, Yizhuang Xie*

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Abstract

Recent advancements in remote sensing object detection have progressed, but distinguishing objects from complex backgrounds remains difficult, especially for tiny objects. To address this, we introduce the Advanced Scale-Aware Attention (ASA) module, which retains key channel information while minimizing computational cost. This module reorganizes channels into the batch dimension and splits them into multiple sub-features. The ASA module contains three branches: the first encodes weights based on scale and channel relationships. The second and third branches use different convolution kernel sizes to capture features across various receptive fields. These branches collaborate to enhance pixel-level relationships, improving foreground-background contrast. On the AI-TOD dataset, our method improved AP50 by 8.6% over state-of-the-art approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing, ICSIDP 2024
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798331515669
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event2nd IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing, ICSIDP 2024 - Zhuhai, China
Duration: 22 Nov 202424 Nov 2024

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing, ICSIDP 2024

Conference

Conference2nd IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing, ICSIDP 2024
Country/TerritoryChina
CityZhuhai
Period22/11/2424/11/24

Keywords

  • Remote Sensing
  • Scale-Aware Attention
  • Tiny Object Detection

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Qiao, T., Chen, H., Chai, B., Liu, W., Qi, G., & Xie, Y. (2024). Advanced Scale-aware Attention for Enhanced Tiny Object Detection in Remote Sensing. In IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing, ICSIDP 2024 (IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing, ICSIDP 2024). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIDP62679.2024.10868712