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Small-Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images with End-to-End Edge-Enhanced GAN and Object Detector Network
The detection performance of small objects in remote sensing images is not
satisfactory compared to large objects, especially in low-resolution and noisy
images. A generative adversarial network (GAN)-based model called enhanced
super-resolution GAN (ESRGAN) shows remarkable image enhancement performance,
but reconstructed images miss high-frequency edge information. Therefore,
object detection performance degrades for small objects on recovered noisy and
low-resolution remote sensing images. Inspired by the success of edge enhanced
GAN (EEGAN) and ESRGAN, we apply a new edge-enhanced super-resolution GAN
(EESRGAN) to improve the image quality of remote sensing images and use
different detector networks in an end-to-end manner where detector loss is
backpropagated into the EESRGAN to improve the detection performance. We
propose an architecture with three components: ESRGAN, Edge Enhancement Network
(EEN), and Detection network. We use residual-in-residual dense blocks (RRDB)
for both the ESRGAN and EEN, and for the detector network, we use the faster
region-based convolutional network (FRCNN) (two-stage detector) and single-shot
multi-box detector (SSD) (one stage detector). Extensive experiments on a
public (car overhead with context) and a self-assembled (oil and gas storage
tank) satellite dataset show superior performance of our method compared to the
standalone state-of-the-art object detectors.Comment: This paper contains 27 pages and accepted for publication in MDPI
remote sensing journal. GitHub Repository:
https://github.com/Jakaria08/EESRGAN (Implementation
A Comprehensive Survey of Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: Theories, Tools and Challenges for the Community
In recent years, deep learning (DL), a re-branding of neural networks (NNs),
has risen to the top in numerous areas, namely computer vision (CV), speech
recognition, natural language processing, etc. Whereas remote sensing (RS)
possesses a number of unique challenges, primarily related to sensors and
applications, inevitably RS draws from many of the same theories as CV; e.g.,
statistics, fusion, and machine learning, to name a few. This means that the RS
community should be aware of, if not at the leading edge of, of advancements
like DL. Herein, we provide the most comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art
RS DL research. We also review recent new developments in the DL field that can
be used in DL for RS. Namely, we focus on theories, tools and challenges for
the RS community. Specifically, we focus on unsolved challenges and
opportunities as it relates to (i) inadequate data sets, (ii)
human-understandable solutions for modelling physical phenomena, (iii) Big
Data, (iv) non-traditional heterogeneous data sources, (v) DL architectures and
learning algorithms for spectral, spatial and temporal data, (vi) transfer
learning, (vii) an improved theoretical understanding of DL systems, (viii)
high barriers to entry, and (ix) training and optimizing the DL.Comment: 64 pages, 411 references. To appear in Journal of Applied Remote
Sensin
Deep learning in remote sensing: a review
Standing at the paradigm shift towards data-intensive science, machine
learning techniques are becoming increasingly important. In particular, as a
major breakthrough in the field, deep learning has proven as an extremely
powerful tool in many fields. Shall we embrace deep learning as the key to all?
Or, should we resist a 'black-box' solution? There are controversial opinions
in the remote sensing community. In this article, we analyze the challenges of
using deep learning for remote sensing data analysis, review the recent
advances, and provide resources to make deep learning in remote sensing
ridiculously simple to start with. More importantly, we advocate remote sensing
scientists to bring their expertise into deep learning, and use it as an
implicit general model to tackle unprecedented large-scale influential
challenges, such as climate change and urbanization.Comment: Accepted for publication IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazin
Effective Use of Dilated Convolutions for Segmenting Small Object Instances in Remote Sensing Imagery
Thanks to recent advances in CNNs, solid improvements have been made in
semantic segmentation of high resolution remote sensing imagery. However, most
of the previous works have not fully taken into account the specific
difficulties that exist in remote sensing tasks. One of such difficulties is
that objects are small and crowded in remote sensing imagery. To tackle with
this challenging task we have proposed a novel architecture called local
feature extraction (LFE) module attached on top of dilated front-end module.
The LFE module is based on our findings that aggressively increasing dilation
factors fails to aggregate local features due to sparsity of the kernel, and
detrimental to small objects. The proposed LFE module solves this problem by
aggregating local features with decreasing dilation factor. We tested our
network on three remote sensing datasets and acquired remarkably good results
for all datasets especially for small objects
Joint-SRVDNet: Joint Super Resolution and Vehicle Detection Network
In many domestic and military applications, aerial vehicle detection and
super-resolutionalgorithms are frequently developed and applied independently.
However, aerial vehicle detection on super-resolved images remains a
challenging task due to the lack of discriminative information in the
super-resolved images. To address this problem, we propose a Joint
Super-Resolution and Vehicle DetectionNetwork (Joint-SRVDNet) that tries to
generate discriminative, high-resolution images of vehicles fromlow-resolution
aerial images. First, aerial images are up-scaled by a factor of 4x using a
Multi-scaleGenerative Adversarial Network (MsGAN), which has multiple
intermediate outputs with increasingresolutions. Second, a detector is trained
on super-resolved images that are upscaled by factor 4x usingMsGAN architecture
and finally, the detection loss is minimized jointly with the super-resolution
loss toencourage the target detector to be sensitive to the subsequent
super-resolution training. The network jointlylearns hierarchical and
discriminative features of targets and produces optimal super-resolution
results. Weperform both quantitative and qualitative evaluation of our proposed
network on VEDAI, xView and DOTAdatasets. The experimental results show that
our proposed framework achieves better visual quality than thestate-of-the-art
methods for aerial super-resolution with 4x up-scaling factor and improves the
accuracy ofaerial vehicle detection
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