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Multiscale Object Detection from Drone Imagery Using Ensemble Transfer Learning
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Object detection in uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) images has been a longstanding challenge in the field of computer vision. Specifically, object detection in drone images is a complex task due to objects of various scales such as humans, buildings, water bodies, and hills. In this paper, we present an implementation of ensemble transfer learning to enhance the performance of the base models for multiscale object detection in drone imagery. Combined with a test-time augmentation pipeline, the algorithm combines different models and applies voting strategies to detect objects of various scales in UAV images. The data augmentation also presents a solution to the deficiency of drone image datasets. We experimented with two specific datasets in the open domain: the VisDrone dataset and the AU-AIR Dataset. Our approach is more practical and efficient due to the use of transfer learning and two-level voting strategy ensemble instead of training custom models on entire datasets. The experimentation shows significant improvement in the mAP for both VisDrone and AU-AIR datasets by employing the ensemble transfer learning method. Furthermore, the utilization of voting strategies further increases the 3reliability of the ensemble as the end-user can select and trace the effects of the mechanism for bounding box predictions.
Keywords:
drone imagery
2D object detection
ensemble techniques
voting strategies
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