Remote Sensing, Vol. 13, Pages 4151: EFM-Net: Feature Extraction and Filtration with Mask Improvement Network for Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images (Remote Sensing)

Object detection is an essential task in computer vision. Many methods have made significant progress in ordinary object detection. Due to the particularity of remote sensing images, the detection target is tiny, the background is messy, dense, and has mutual occlusion, which makes the general detection method challenging to apply to remote sensing images. For these problems, we propose a new detection framework feature extraction and filtration method with a mask improvement network (EFM-Net) to enhance object detection ability. In EFM-Net, we designed a multi-branched feature extraction (MBFE) module to better capture the information in the feature graph. In order to suppress the background interference, we designed a background filtering module based on attention mechanisms to enhance the attention of objects. Finally, we proposed a mask generate the boundary improvement method to make the network more robust to occlusion detection. We tested the DOTA v1.0, NWPU VHR-10, and UCAS-AOD datasets, and the experimental results show that our method has excellent effects.