• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 57, Issue 20, 201505 (2020)
Yingjie Liu, Fengbao Yang*, and Peng Hu
Author Affiliations
  • School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030051, China
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    Yingjie Liu, Fengbao Yang, Peng Hu. Parallel FPN Algorithm Based on Cascade R-CNN for Object Detection from UAV Aerial Images[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(20): 201505 Copy Citation Text show less
    Object area versus number of objects
    Fig. 1. Object area versus number of objects
    Number of objects per image versus percentage of number of images
    Fig. 2. Number of objects per image versus percentage of number of images
    Example of actual aerial images
    Fig. 3. Example of actual aerial images
    FPN frame
    Fig. 4. FPN frame
    Parallel FPN frame
    Fig. 5. Parallel FPN frame
    Structure of Cascade R-CNN
    Fig. 6. Structure of Cascade R-CNN
    Change of positive proposals in every stage. (a) IoU threshold is 0.5; (b) IoU threshold is 0.6; (c) IoU threshold is 0.7
    Fig. 7. Change of positive proposals in every stage. (a) IoU threshold is 0.5; (b) IoU threshold is 0.6; (c) IoU threshold is 0.7
    Overall framework of proposed model
    Fig. 8. Overall framework of proposed model
    Visual detection results of aerial images
    Fig. 9. Visual detection results of aerial images
    AlgorithmBackboneAPAP0.5AP0.75APSAPMAPL
    Retina-Net[19]ResNet-1017.113.27.02.912.417.6
    Faster R-CNN4.610.13.72.77.17.8
    R-FCN[20]7.916.66.54.512.418.1
    FPN w nearest17.037.313.611.425.627.7
    FPN w bilinear17.237.414.011.525.928.0
    Proposed algorithm17.537.514.511.526.228.4
    FPN w nearestResNet-101-v1d20.140.917.714.029.132.5
    FPN w bilinear20.341.018.114.029.332.9
    Proposed algorithm20.641.118.714.129.633.3
    Table 1. Comparison of classical algorithms %
    NetworkAPAP0.5AP0.75
    Without Cascade R-CNN20.641.118.7
    With CascadeR-CNNStage 1-225.646.625.4
    Stage 1-326.146.425.7
    Stage 1-425.746.225.3
    Table 2. Impact of number of cascading stages on parameters %
    Anchor schemeAP /%APS /%APM /%APL /%
    A25.017.435.736.8
    B26.118.337.038.3
    C25.818.036.436.4
    Table 3. Comparison of anchor size of proposed algorithm
    DatasetMulti-scale trainingAP /%AP0.5 /%AP0.75 /%
    MS COCO×/√26.1/26.746.4/48.125.7/26.1
    VisDrone×/√27.34/27.9852.31/52.5424.84/25.62
    Table 4. Detection result of multi-scale training
    Yingjie Liu, Fengbao Yang, Peng Hu. Parallel FPN Algorithm Based on Cascade R-CNN for Object Detection from UAV Aerial Images[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(20): 201505
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