Author:
Luo Xudong,Wu Yiquan,Zhao Langyue
Abstract
Target detection based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images has increasingly become a hot topic with the rapid development of UAVs and related technologies. UAV aerial images often feature a large number of small targets and complex backgrounds due to the UAV’s flying height and shooting angle of view. These characteristics make the advanced YOLOv4 detection method lack outstanding performance in UAV aerial images. In light of the aforementioned problems, this study adjusted YOLOv4 to the image’s characteristics, making the improved method more suitable for target detection in UAV aerial images. Specifically, according to the characteristics of the activation function, different activation functions were used in the shallow network and the deep network, respectively. The loss for the bounding box regression was computed using the EIOU loss function. Improved Efficient Channel Attention (IECA) modules were added to the backbone. At the neck, the Spatial Pyramid Pooling (SPP) module was replaced with a pyramid pooling module. At the end of the model, Adaptive Spatial Feature Fusion (ASFF) modules were added. In addition, a dataset of forklifts based on UAV aerial imagery was also established. On the PASCAL VOC, VEDAI, and forklift datasets, we ran a series of experiments. The experimental results reveal that the proposed method (YOLO-DRONE, YOLOD) has better detection performance than YOLOv4 for the aforementioned three datasets, with the mean average precision (mAP) being improved by 3.06%, 3.75%, and 1.42%, respectively.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Cited by
28 articles.
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