针对小目标方向检测难题,提出新数据集与动态学习方法
Oriented Tiny Object Detection: A Dataset, Benchmark, and Dynamic Unbiased Learning
- 构建动态粗到精学习框架,缓解模型偏好大目标问题
- 在8个数据集上实现顶尖精度,小目标检测提升显著
- 适合从事遥感、自动驾驶中微小目标检测的研究者
检测具有有限外观信息却广泛存在于现实应用中的定向小目标,仍是复杂且研究不足的问题。本文系统性地引入一个新数据集、基准测试及一种动态粗到精学习方案。所提数据集AI-TOD-R是现有定向目标检测数据集中最小物体尺寸的代表。基于AI-TOD-R,构建覆盖多种检测范式(包括全监督与标签高效方法)的基准。研究发现,各类学习流程中普遍存在学习偏差:模型对高置信度目标愈发自信,而对脆弱的定向小目标则进一步边缘化,影响检测性能。为此,提出动态粗到精学习(DCFL)方案,通过动态更新先验位置以更贴合小目标区域,并按形状平衡样本的数量与质量,从而缓解先验设置与样本选择中的偏差。在八个挑战性数据集上的大量实验表明,DCFL在精度、效率和通用性方面均达到当前最优水平。数据集、基准与代码已公开于https://chasel-tsui.github.io/AI-TOD-R/。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Detecting oriented tiny objects, which are limited in appearance information yet prevalent in real-world applications, remains an intricate and under-explored problem. To address this, we systemically introduce a new dataset, benchmark, and a dynamic coarse-to-fine learning scheme in this study. Our proposed dataset, AI-TOD-R, features the smallest object sizes among all oriented object detection datasets. Based on AI-TOD-R, we present a benchmark spanning a broad range of detection paradigms, including both fully-supervised and label-efficient approaches. Through investigation, we identify a learning bias presents across various learning pipelines: confident objects become increasingly confident, while vulnerable oriented tiny objects are further marginalized, hindering their detection performance. To mitigate this issue, we propose a Dynamic Coarse-to-Fine Learning (DCFL) scheme to achieve unbiased learning. DCFL dynamically updates prior positions to better align with the limited areas of oriented tiny objects, and it assigns samples in a way that balances both quantity and quality across different object shapes, thus mitigating biases in prior settings and sample selection. Extensive experiments across eight challenging object detection datasets demonstrate that DCFL achieves state-of-the-art accuracy, high efficiency, and remarkable versatility. The dataset, benchmark, and code are available at https://chasel-tsui.github.io/AI-TOD-R/.
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