ECascade-RCNN: Enhanced Cascade RCNN for Multi-scale Object Detection in UAV Images

Qizhang Lin, Yan Ding*, Hong Xu, Wenxiang Lin, Jiaxin Li, Xiaoxiao Xie

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Due to the change of flight altitude and attitude of UAV, the object scale in UAV images exists difference which leads to a great challenge for object detection and has drawn wide attention. In this paper, an improved object detection network named ECascade-RCNN is proposed to deal with the multi-scale problem in object detection task for UAV images. We present an innovative Trident-FPN backbone to extract features and design a new attention mechanism to enhance the performance of the detector. Moreover, k-means algorithm is adapted to generate anchors so that the detection model can get better regression accuracy. We evaluate the proposed ECascade-R-CNN on Visdrone dataset through several ablation experiments and the results show that the ECascade-RCNN given in the paper is effective. The ECascade-RCNN is also used in the Visdrone2020 challenge and ranked 8th on the object detection track.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications, ICARA 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages268-272
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9780738142906
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Feb 2021
Event2021 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications, ICARA 2021 - Virtual, Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 4 Feb 20216 Feb 2021

Publication series

Name2021 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications, ICARA 2021

Conference

Conference2021 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications, ICARA 2021
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityVirtual, Prague
Period4/02/216/02/21

Keywords

  • UAV images
  • object detection
  • scale variation

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