Computer and Modernization ›› 2021, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (06): 18-23.

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DF-SSD: A One-stage Small Target Detection Algorithm Based on Deconvolution and Feature Fusion

  

  1. (1. Guizhou Engineering Laboratory for Advance Computing and Medical Information Service College of (Computer Science and 
    Technology, Guizhou University), Guiyang 550025, China; 2. Aerospace Jiangnan Group Co. Ltd., Guiyang 550009, China; 
    3. Guizhou Lianke Weixin Technology Co. Ltd., Guiyang 550001, China)
  • Online:2021-07-05 Published:2021-07-05

Abstract: Aiming at the problem of the SSD model’s poor detection performance on small targets, the DF-SSD algorithm was proposed, its technical contributions include a one-stage detector method based on deconvolution and feature fusion and an improved default bounding boxes’ size calculation algorithm. Deconvolution and feature fusion can increase the semantic information of shallow feature layers. In DF-SSD algorithm, the improved default bounding boxes’ size calculation introduces the characteristics of the data set, which can effectively use each default bounding box for training and prediction. Compared with the improved R-SSD and RSSD models based on SSD, the DF-SSD method has higher detection accuracy. At the same time, DF-SSD’s detection overhead is only 1/2 of R-SSD and 1/5 of DSSD. The MAP of the DF-SSD on the VOC2007 and DIOR data sets is 1.4 and 3.6 percentage points higher than that of SSD respectively. Meanwhile, DF-SSD’s MAP of small targets of ship, vehicle, windmill, and cat increased 23.2, 12.6, 8 and 4.8 percentage points respectively. The results show DF-SSD effectively improves the detection accuracy of small targets and has a faster detection speed.

Key words: SSD model, deconvolution, feature fusion, small target detection, PASCAL VOC2007, DIOR