用傅里叶级数解决定向目标检测的角度边界不连续问题
Fourier Series Coder: A Novel Perspective on Angle Boundary Discontinuity Problem for Oriented Object Detection

- 将角度映射到正交傅里叶基,实现连续可逆编码
- 在三个大数据集上显著提升高精度检测性能
- 适合需要精确方向估计的自动驾驶与遥感场景
随着智能驾驶和遥感技术的快速发展,定向目标检测受到广泛关注。然而,角度边界不连续(ABD)和周期模糊性(CA)问题严重制约了高精度性能,导致周期边界附近角度波动剧烈。尽管现有方法采用连续角度编码缓解该问题,但理论与实证分析表明,当前最优方法仍存在显著周期误差。我们归因于其非正交解码机制中的结构噪声放大。为此,提出轻量级傅里叶级数编码器(FSC),建立连续、可逆且数学稳健的角度编码-解码范式。通过将角度严格映射至最小正交傅里叶基并显式施加几何流形约束,有效防止特征模态坍塌。该结构稳定表示确保鲁棒相位展开,无需启发式截断即可实现严格边界连续性和优异抗噪能力。在三个大规模数据集上的大量实验表明,FSC取得具有竞争力的整体性能,显著提升高精度检测效果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
With the rapid advancement of intelligent driving and remote sensing, oriented object detection has gained widespread attention. However, achieving high-precision performance is fundamentally constrained by the Angle Boundary Discontinuity (ABD) and Cyclic Ambiguity (CA) problems, which typically cause significant angle fluctuations near periodic boundaries. Although recent studies propose continuous angle coders to alleviate these issues, our theoretical and empirical analyses reveal that state-of-the-art methods still suffer from substantial cyclic errors. We attribute this instability to the structural noise amplification within their non-orthogonal decoding mechanisms. This mathematical vulnerability significantly exacerbates angular deviations, particularly for square-like objects. To resolve this fundamentally, we propose the Fourier Series Coder (FSC), a lightweight plug-and-play component that establishes a continuous, reversible, and mathematically robust angle encoding-decoding paradigm. By rigorously mapping angles onto a minimal orthogonal Fourier basis and explicitly enforcing a geometric manifold constraint, FSC effectively prevents feature modulus collapse. This structurally stabilized representation ensures highly robust phase unwrapping, intrinsically eliminating the need for heuristic truncations while achieving strict boundary continuity and superior noise immunity. Extensive experiments across three large-scale datasets demonstrate that FSC achieves highly competitive overall performance, yielding substantial improvements in high-precision detection. The code will be available at https://github.com/weiminghong/FSC.
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