Xu Sun, Yinhui Yu*, Qing Cheng
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.3, pp. 4149-4171, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052725
Abstract Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial images has become increasingly important in military and civil applications. General object detection models are not robust enough against interclass similarity and intraclass variability of small objects, and UAV-specific nuisances such as uncontrolled weather conditions. Unlike previous approaches focusing on high-level semantic information, we report the importance of underlying features to improve detection accuracy and robustness from the information-theoretic perspective. Specifically, we propose a robust and discriminative feature learning approach through mutual information maximization (RD-MIM), which can be integrated into numerous object detection methods for aerial images.… More >
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