MultiResolution Attention Extractor for Small Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05941v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:47:56 GMT
• Title: MultiResolution Attention Extractor for Small Object Detection
• Authors: Fan Zhang, Licheng Jiao, Lingling Li, Fang Liu, and Xu Liu
• Abstract summary: Small objects are difficult to detect because of their low resolution and small size. Inspired by human vision "attention" mechanism, we exploit two feature extraction methods to mine the most useful information of small objects.
• Score: 40.74232149130456
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Small objects are difficult to detect because of their low resolution and small size. The existing small object detection methods mainly focus on data preprocessing or narrowing the differences between large and small objects. Inspired by human vision "attention" mechanism, we exploit two feature extraction methods to mine the most useful information of small objects. Both methods are based on multiresolution feature extraction. We initially design and explore the soft attention method, but we find that its convergence speed is slow. Then we present the second method, an attention-based feature interaction method, called a MultiResolution Attention Extractor (MRAE), showing significant improvement as a generic feature extractor in small object detection. After each building block in the vanilla feature extractor, we append a small network to generate attention weights followed by a weighted-sum operation to get the final attention maps. Our attention-based feature extractor is 2.0 times the AP of the "hard" attention counterpart (plain architecture) on the COCO small object detection benchmark, proving that MRAE can capture useful location and contextual information through adaptive learning.

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