Deep Fusion Feature Based Object Detection Method for High Resolution Optical Remote Sensing Images

Abstract

With the rapid growth of high-resolution remote sensing image-based applications, one of the fundamental problems in managing the increasing number of remote sensing images is automatic object detection. In this paper, we present a fusion feature-based deep learning approach to detect objects in high-resolution remote sensing images. It employs fine-tuning from ImageNet as a pre-training model to address the challenge of it lacking a large amount of training datasets in remote sensing. Besides, we improve the binarized normed gradients algorithm by multiple weak feature scoring models for candidate window selection and design a deep fusion feature extraction method with the context feature and object feature. Experiments are performed on different sizes of high-resolution optical remote sensing images. The results show that our model is better than regular models, and the average detection accuracy is 8.86% higher than objNet.

Keywords

• high-resolution
• optical remote sensing
• object detection
• deep learning
• transfer learning