Enhancing Rotated Object Detection via Anisotropic Gaussian Bounding Box and Bhattacharyya Distance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16445v1
• Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:42:30 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Rotated Object Detection via Anisotropic Gaussian Bounding Box and Bhattacharyya Distance
• Authors: Chien Thai, Mai Xuan Trang, Huong Ninh, Hoang Hiep Ly, Anh Son Le,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces an improved loss function aimed at enhancing detection accuracy and robustness.<n>We advocate for the use of an anisotropic Gaussian representation to address the issues associated with isotropic variance in square-like objects.<n>Our proposed method addresses these challenges by incorporating a rotation-invariant loss function that effectively captures the geometric properties of rotated objects.
• Score: 0.9786690381850356
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Detecting rotated objects accurately and efficiently is a significant challenge in computer vision, particularly in applications such as aerial imagery, remote sensing, and autonomous driving. Although traditional object detection frameworks are effective for axis-aligned objects, they often underperform in scenarios involving rotated objects due to their limitations in capturing orientation variations. This paper introduces an improved loss function aimed at enhancing detection accuracy and robustness by leveraging the Gaussian bounding box representation and Bhattacharyya distance. In addition, we advocate for the use of an anisotropic Gaussian representation to address the issues associated with isotropic variance in square-like objects. Our proposed method addresses these challenges by incorporating a rotation-invariant loss function that effectively captures the geometric properties of rotated objects. We integrate this proposed loss function into state-of-the-art deep learning-based rotated object detection detectors, and extensive experiments demonstrated significant improvements in mean Average Precision metrics compared to existing methods. The results highlight the potential of our approach to establish new benchmark in rotated object detection, with implications for a wide range of applications requiring precise and reliable object localization irrespective of orientation.

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