Enhanced single shot detector for small object detection in drone-capture scenarios
摘要
Recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved object detection performance. However, detecting small objects in drone-captured imagery remains challenging due to their low resolution and noisy appearance. This paper presents the Enhanced Single Shot Detector (ESSD), designed for accurate small object detection. The ESSD incorporates a scale-confusion erasing module to reduce noise from larger objects, enhancing the detection of smaller ones. It also features a neighbor fusion module that integrates semantic information across layers. Our experiments on the VisDrone2019-DET benchmark dataset show that the ESSD achieves state-of-the-art performance in small object detection.