让小物体‘借’大物体的特征，提升检测精度。
Learning to Borrow Features for Improved Detection of Small Objects in Single-Shot Detectors
- 小物体从同类别大物体借取语义特征，增强表达能力。
- 在COCO数据集上，小物体检测平均精度提升6.2%。
- 适合需要高精度小目标检测的实时场景应用。
由于卷积特征图中空间分辨率与语义丰富性之间的固有权衡，单阶段目标检测器在检测小物体方面仍面临重大挑战。为此，我们提出一种新框架，使小物体表示能够‘借用’同一类别中较大、语义更丰富的实例的判别性特征。该架构引入三个关键组件：特征匹配块（FMB）用于跨层识别语义相似的描述符，特征表示块（FRB）通过加权聚合生成增强的浅层特征，特征融合块（FFB）通过整合原始特征、借用特征和上下文信息来优化特征图。基于SSD框架构建，该方法在保持实时检测性能的同时，提升了浅层特征的表征能力。实验结果表明，相较于基线方法，该方法显著提高了小物体检测精度，为复杂视觉环境中鲁棒的目标检测提供了有前景的方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Detecting small objects remains a significant challenge in single-shot object detectors due to the inherent trade-off between spatial resolution and semantic richness in convolutional feature maps. To address this issue, we propose a novel framework that enables small object representations to "borrow" discriminative features from larger, semantically richer instances within the same class. Our architecture introduces three key components: the Feature Matching Block (FMB) to identify semantically similar descriptors across layers, the Feature Representing Block (FRB) to generate enhanced shallow features through weighted aggregation, and the Feature Fusion Block (FFB) to refine feature maps by integrating original, borrowed, and context information. Built upon the SSD framework, our method improves the descriptive capacity of shallow layers while maintaining real-time detection performance. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach significantly boosts small object detection accuracy over baseline methods, offering a promising direction for robust object detection in complex visual environments.
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