A Recursive Prediction-Based Feature Enhancement for Small Object Detection

Author:

Xiao Xiang1ORCID,Xue Xiaorong1,Zhao Zhiyuan1,Fan Yisheng1

Affiliation:

1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou 121001, China

Abstract

Transformer-based methodologies in object detection have recently piqued considerable interest and have produced impressive results. DETR, an end-to-end object detection framework, ingeniously integrates the Transformer architecture, traditionally used in NLP, into computer vision for sequence-to-sequence prediction. Its enhanced variant, DINO, featuring improved denoising anchor boxes, has showcased remarkable performance on the COCO val2017 dataset. However, it often encounters challenges when applied to scenarios involving small object detection. Thus, we propose an innovative method for feature enhancement tailored to recursive prediction tasks, with a particular emphasis on augmenting small object detection performance. It primarily involves three enhancements: refining the backbone to favor feature maps that are more sensitive to small targets, incrementally augmenting the number of queries for small objects, and advancing the loss function for better performance. Specifically, The study incorporated the Switchable Atrous Convolution (SAC) mechanism, which features adaptable dilated convolutions, to increment the receptive field and thus elevate the innate feature extraction capabilities of the primary network concerning diminutive objects. Subsequently, a Recursive Small Object Prediction (RSP) module was designed to enhance the feature extraction of the prediction head for more precise network operations. Finally, the loss function was augmented with the Normalized Wasserstein Distance (NWD) metric, tailoring the loss function to suit small object detection better. The efficacy of the proposed model is empirically confirmed via testing on the VISDRONE2019 dataset. The comprehensive array of experiments indicates that our proposed model outperforms the extant DINO model in terms of average precision (AP) small object detection.

Funder

Science and Technology Plan Project

Education Department of Liaoning Province, China

Publisher

MDPI AG

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