MSMANET: Ultra-Lightweight SAR Aircraft Detection Network Based on Multi-Scale Matching Attention

Hao Chang, Shibo Chang, Jialin Guan, Xiongjun Fu*, Kunyi Guo*, Jian Dong*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With the rapid development of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), the number and resolution of SAR images are constantly increasing. As a high-value target, aircraft detection has become a research hotspot in the field of SAR image interpretation. SAR aircraft have diverse postures, complex backgrounds, and small differences among different types of aircraft, which can easily lead to false detections. Meanwhile, some SAR aircraft have incomplete structures and are accompanied by speckle noise, which can easily lead to missed detections. To address the above issues, we propose an ultra-lightweight SAR aircraft detection network based on multi-scale matching attention (MSMANET). Firstly, we propose an ultra-lightweight backbone that extracts SAR gradient features through parallel processing of traditional convolution and Ghost modules. Secondly, aiming to the scale, shape and background information of aircraft, Multi-Scale Matching Attention (MSMA) is designed. MSMA performs feature aggregation and cross channel feature matching on multi receptive field feature maps, making the network more focused on feature maps suitable for detection. The mean average precision (mAP) of MSMANET on the SAR-AIRcraft1.0 dataset is as high as 98.4%, with the 1.6 GFLOPS, 657K parameter and 55.1 FPS. Compared to existing advanced networks, the performance has reached SOTA.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages7960-7963
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9798350360325
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2024 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 7 Jul 202412 Jul 2024

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Conference

Conference2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2024
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period7/07/2412/07/24

Keywords

  • aircraft detection
  • attention mechanism
  • lightweight network
  • multiscale detection
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

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