1 August 2019 Learning rotation-invariant binary codes for efficient object detection from remote sensing images
Yazhou Liu, Hui Xu, Quansen Sun
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Abstract

Object detection is one of the most important research topics for remote sensing image (RSI) analysis. Because of the rapid development of satellite imaging technology, the resolution of RSI has increased dramatically, which brings a great challenge to the efficiency of RSI-based object detection. We present an object detection model, which greatly improves the detection speed by using learning-based hashing techniques. Specifically, first, a selective search method is used to generate many high quality object proposals that may contain objects. Then for each proposal, we learn rotation-invariant binary codes, which can handle the objects with arbitrary orientations in RSI, to quickly eliminate most nonobject proposals in Hamming space. And finally, the object detection task can be achieved by classifying the left (very limited amount of) proposals with more discriminating classification model. Experimental evaluations on a public very high-resolution remote sensing dataset show the superiority of the proposed method. Specifically, the rotation-invariant learning metric has been combined with three popular hashing methods, and performance improvements have been obtained for all the cases. Furthermore, comparisons with deep learning-based detectors show that hash-based methods fail to achieve state-of-the-art detection performance, but when the graphics processing unit is inaccessible, it achieves a good compromise between performance and runtime.

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Yazhou Liu, Hui Xu, and Quansen Sun "Learning rotation-invariant binary codes for efficient object detection from remote sensing images," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 13(3), 036504 (1 August 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.13.036504
Received: 27 January 2019; Accepted: 3 July 2019; Published: 1 August 2019
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KEYWORDS
Binary data

Remote sensing

Sun

Image segmentation

Feature extraction

Sensors

Data modeling

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