Long-Range Thermal Target Detection in Data-Limited Settings Using Restricted Receptive Fields

Author:

Poster Domenick1ORCID,Hu Shuowen2,Nasrabadi Nasser M.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, 395 Evansdale Dr., Morgantown, WV 26506, USA

2. DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Rd., Adelphi, MD 20783, USA

Abstract

Long-range target detection in thermal infrared imagery is a challenging research problem due to the low resolution and limited detail captured by thermal sensors. The limited size and variability in thermal image datasets for small target detection is also a major constraint for the development of accurate and robust detection algorithms. To address both the sensor and data constraints, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) feature extraction architecture designed for small object detection in data-limited settings. More specifically, we focus on long-range ground-based thermal vehicle detection, but also show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm on drone and satellite aerial imagery. The design of the proposed architecture is inspired by an analysis of popular object detectors as well as custom-designed networks. We find that restricted receptive fields (rather than more globalized features, as is the trend), along with less downsampling of feature maps and attenuated processing of fine-grained features, lead to greatly improved detection rates while mitigating the model’s capacity to overfit on small or poorly varied datasets. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art results on the Defense Systems Information Analysis Center (DSIAC) automated target recognition (ATR) and the Tiny Object Detection in Aerial Images (AI-TOD) datasets.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry

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