Presentation 2022-12-05
Accuracy Improvement of Small Object Detection Based on Deep Learning
Junya Morioka, Ryusuke Miyamoto,
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Abstract(in English) Various methods based on deep learning have been proposed for object detection, but there is still much room for improving the accuracy of small object detection. In this paper, we revisit the fundamentals of visual object detection based on deep learning and discuss how to improve its accuracy. Comparison of the Bird, SAVMAP, and VisDrone dataset dedicated to small object detection with the generic PascalVOC and COCO datasets indicates that the IoU corresponding to intersection of a ground truth and a detection result is very low for small object detection. Moreover, experimental results using RetinaNet, EfficientDet, and YOLOv5 showed that the input size, anchor box, depth of model layers, and surrounding context of target objects were important factors for small object detection. In addition, it is also shown that the accuracy of small object detection depends on the anchor box more than generic object detection, shallow layer close to the detector input contains significant information for small object detection, and the significant information maybe lost as the layers of the model layers become deeper. Experimental results showed that detection accuracy was improved by the following options: enlarging bounding boxes, using higher resolution input, and network architecture with shallower layers.
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Keyword(in English) Object Detection / Small Object Detection / Deep Learning
Paper # SIS2022-29
Date of Issue 2022-11-28 (SIS)

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Committee SIS
Conference Date 2022/12/5(2days)
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Chair Tomoaki Kimura(Kanagawa Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Naoto Sasaoka(Tottori Univ.) / Hakaru Tamukoh(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Naoto Sasaoka(NTT) / Hakaru Tamukoh(Kansai Univ.)
Assistant Yoshiaki Makabe(Kanagawa Inst. of Tech.) / Yosuke Sugiura(Saitama Univ.)

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Language JPN
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Title (in English) Accuracy Improvement of Small Object Detection Based on Deep Learning
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Keyword(1) Object Detection
Keyword(2) Small Object Detection
Keyword(3) Deep Learning
1st Author's Name Junya Morioka
1st Author's Affiliation Meiji University(Meiji Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Ryusuke Miyamoto
2nd Author's Affiliation Meiji University(Meiji Univ.)
Date 2022-12-05
Paper # SIS2022-29
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) SIS-293
Page pp.pp.32-37(SIS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2022-11-28 (SIS)