Aircraft-LBDet: Multi-Task Aircraft Detection with Landmark and Bounding Box Detection

Abstract

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and computer vision, deep learning has become widely used for aircraft detection. However, aircraft detection is still a challenging task due to the small target size and dense arrangement of aircraft and the complex backgrounds in remote sensing images. Existing remote sensing aircraft detection methods were mainly designed based on algorithms employed in general object detection methods. However, these methods either tend to ignore the key structure and size information of aircraft targets or have poor detection effects on densely distributed aircraft targets. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-task aircraft detection algorithm. Firstly, a multi-task joint training method is proposed, which provides richer semantic structure features for bounding box localization through landmark detection. Secondly, a multi-task inference algorithm is introduced that utilizes landmarks to provide additional supervision for bounding box NMS (non-maximum suppression) filtering, effectively reducing false positives. Finally, a novel loss function is proposed as a constrained optimization between bounding boxes and landmarks, which further improves aircraft detection accuracy. Experiments on the UCAS-AOD dataset demonstrated the state-of-the-art precision and efficiency of our proposed method compared to existing approaches. Furthermore, our ablation study revealed that the incorporation of our designed modules could significantly enhance network performance.

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