ARS-Det: an axis-based anchor-free rotation detector for ship in remote sensing images

Lei Zhang; Yuehuang Wang; Wen Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2625574

9 December 2021 ARS-Det: an axis-based anchor-free rotation detector for ship in remote sensing images

Lei Zhang, Yuehuang Wang, Wen Chen

Proceedings Volume 12129, International Conference on Environmental Remote Sensing and Big Data (ERSBD 2021); 1212904 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2625574
Event: 2021 International Conference on Environmental Remote Sensing and Big Data, 2021, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Ship detection in remote sensing images is a challenging and important task. Many methods of deep learning have been widely used in this field in recent years and most of them rely on a lot of predefined rotated anchor boxes, which not only lead to inaccurate angle predictions but also introduce excessive hyper parameters and high computational cost. In this paper, we propose an anchor-free rotation ship detector (ARS-Det) using axis-based representation scheme to address these issues. Our ARS-Det regards the detection of arbitrary-oriented objects as predicting the points at both ends of the longest axis and width of the objects. Attention FPN model is designed to capture multi-scale and key features of arbitrary-oriented target. Then, points assignment and orientation center-ness computation are proposed to screen of positive samples accurately. Experiments on public ship dataset HRSC2016 show that our method achieves state-of-art performance on ship detection in remote sensing images.

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Lei Zhang, Yuehuang Wang, and Wen Chen "ARS-Det: an axis-based anchor-free rotation detector for ship in remote sensing images", Proc. SPIE 12129, International Conference on Environmental Remote Sensing and Big Data (ERSBD 2021), 1212904 (9 December 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2625574

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