GAANet: Ghost Auto Anchor Network for Detecting Varying Size Drones in Dark

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03425v1
• Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 10:46:05 GMT
• Title: GAANet: Ghost Auto Anchor Network for Detecting Varying Size Drones in Dark
• Authors: Misha Urooj Khan, Maham Misbah, Zeeshan Kaleem, Yansha Deng, Abbas Jamalipour
• Abstract summary: We propose an object detector called Ghost Auto Anchor Network (GAANet) for infrared (IR) images. The detector uses a YOLOv5 core to address challenges in object detection for IR images. GAANet has higher overall mean average precision (mAP@50), recall, and precision around 2.5%, 2.3%, and 1.4%, respectively.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The usage of drones has tremendously increased in different sectors spanning from military to industrial applications. Despite all the benefits they offer, their misuse can lead to mishaps, and tackling them becomes more challenging particularly at night due to their small size and low visibility conditions. To overcome those limitations and improve the detection accuracy at night, we propose an object detector called Ghost Auto Anchor Network (GAANet) for infrared (IR) images. The detector uses a YOLOv5 core to address challenges in object detection for IR images, such as poor accuracy and a high false alarm rate caused by extended altitudes, poor lighting, and low image resolution. To improve performance, we implemented auto anchor calculation, modified the conventional convolution block to ghost-convolution, adjusted the input channel size, and used the AdamW optimizer. To enhance the precision of multiscale tiny object recognition, we also introduced an additional extra-small object feature extractor and detector. Experimental results in a custom IR dataset with multiple classes (birds, drones, planes, and helicopters) demonstrate that GAANet shows improvement compared to state-of-the-art detectors. In comparison to GhostNet-YOLOv5, GAANet has higher overall mean average precision (mAP@50), recall, and precision around 2.5\%, 2.3\%, and 1.4\%, respectively. The dataset and code for this paper are available as open source at https://github.com/ZeeshanKaleem/GhostAutoAnchorNet.

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