Remote Sensing Image Object Detection by Fusing Multi-Scale Contextual Features and Channel Enhancement

• Main Authors: Ma, Xuesen, Dong, Jindian, Wei, Weixin, Zheng, Biao, Ma, Ji, Zhou, Tianbao
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Channel enhancement; Contextual features; Convolution; Feature extraction; Neural networks; Object detection; Reconnaissance; Remote sensing image; Semantics; Urban planning
• ISSN: 2161-4407
• DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN54540.2023.10191739

Remote sensing technology is becoming more sophisticated and is extensively used for object tracking, urban planning, military reconnaissance and other fields. Complex backgrounds and diverse object scales are two important factors that affect the object detection effect of remote sensing images. To address this problem, this paper proposes a remote sensing object detection model that incorporates channel enhancement and multi-scale contextual features. Firstly, the multi-scale contextual feature enhancement module is constructed, which performs multi-order spatial interaction by cascading recursive convolution to obtain contextual information of feature maps at different scales, and introduces attention to reinforce unique features of objects and suppress background interference. Then, the spatial pyramid channel enhancement module combining sub-pixel convolution and adaptive sampling factor is designed to mitigate the semantic weakening of the depth feature maps caused by channel downscaling, thus enhancing the sampling effect between feature maps of different scales and reducing information loss. Finally, the effectiveness of the model is verified on the large-scale remote sensing image object detection dataset DIOR.