Oriented Object Detection Based on Adaptive Feature Learning and Enrichment

Abstract

Oriented object detection has broad utilization in many fields, including urban traffic monitoring, land utilization assessment, and environmental monitoring. However, current oriented object detecting methods are limited in leveraging multiscale information, failing to fully exploit the rich scale variation within images and resulting in suboptimal performance when detecting multiscale targets. Herein, an innovative method SH-Net is proposed based on adaptive feature learning and enrichment. First, an adaptive feature learning module (AFLM) is constructed to enhance the feature learning capability for multiscale objects. Second, a high-resolution feature pyramidal network (HRFPN) is constructed to enhance deep feature fusion for dense and small targets. Finally, a rotated proposal generation (RPG) module and rotated box refinement (RBR) module are proposed to generate and refine the bounding box for extracted oriented objects. The experimental results obtained on the DOTA dataset show that SH-Net can achieve a mAP of 82.67% and surpasses most state-of-the-art methods.