Quad Gaussian Networks for Vehicle Detection in Aerial Images

Abstract

Vehicle detection in remote sensing images is a crucial aspect of intelligent transportation systems. It plays an essential role in road planning, congestion control, and road construction in cities. However, detecting vehicles in remote sensing images is challenging due to their small size, high density, and noise. Most current detectors that perform well in conventional scenes fail to achieve better results in this context. Thus, we propose a quad-layer decoupled network to improve the algorithm’s performance in detecting vehicles in remote sensing scenes. This is achieved by introducing modules such as a Group Focus downsampling structure, a quad-layer decoupled detector, and the GTAA label assignment method. Experiments demonstrate that the designed algorithm achieves a mean average precision (mAP) of 49.4 and operates at a speed of 3.0 ms on the RTX3090 within a multi-class vehicle detection dataset constructed based on the xView dataset. It outperforms various real-time detectors in terms of detection accuracy and speed.

Keywords

• object detection
• vehicle detection
• remote sensing
• deep learning