Underwater object detection in sonar imagery with detection transformer and Zero-shot neural architecture search

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06694v1
• Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 16:41:09 GMT
• Title: Underwater object detection in sonar imagery with detection transformer and Zero-shot neural architecture search
• Authors: XiaoTong Gu, Shengyu Tang, Yiming Cao, Changdong Yu,
• Abstract summary: Underwater object detection using sonar imagery has become a critical and rapidly evolving research domain within marine technology.<n>We specifically propose a Detection Transformer (DETR) architecture optimized with a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approach.<n>This architecture achieves state-of-the-art performance on two Representative datasets.
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• Abstract: Underwater object detection using sonar imagery has become a critical and rapidly evolving research domain within marine technology. However, sonar images are characterized by lower resolution and sparser features compared to optical images, which seriously degrades the performance of object detection.To address these challenges, we specifically propose a Detection Transformer (DETR) architecture optimized with a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) approach called NAS-DETR for object detection in sonar images. First, an improved Zero-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method based on the maximum entropy principle is proposed to identify a real-time, high-representational-capacity CNN-Transformer backbone for sonar image detection. This method enables the efficient discovery of high-performance network architectures with low computational and time overhead. Subsequently, the backbone is combined with a Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) and a deformable attention-based Transformer decoder to construct a complete network architecture. This architecture integrates various advanced components and training schemes to enhance overall performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that this architecture achieves state-of-the-art performance on two Representative datasets, while maintaining minimal overhead in real-time efficiency and computational complexity. Furthermore, correlation analysis between the key parameters and differential entropy-based fitness function is performed to enhance the interpretability of the proposed framework. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work in the field of sonar object detection to integrate the DETR architecture with a NAS search mechanism.

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