Self-Supervised Feature Contrastive Learning for Small Weak Object Detection in Remote Sensing

Zheng Li

doi:10.3390/rs17081438

Self-Supervised Feature Contrastive Learning for Small Weak Object Detection in Remote Sensing

2025-04-17

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DOI：10.3390/rs17081438

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Despite advances in remote sensing object detection, accurately identifying small, weak objects remains challenging. Their limited pixel representation often fails to capture distinctive features, making them susceptible to environmental interference. Current detectors frequently miss these subtle feature variations. To address these challenges, we propose FCDet, a feature contrast-based detector for small, weak objects. Our approach introduces: (1) a spatial-guided feature upsampler (SGFU) that aligns features by adaptive sampling based on spatial distribution, thus achieving fine-grained alignment during feature aggregation; (2) a feature contrast head (FCH) that projects GT and RoI features into an embedding space for discriminative learning; and (3) an instance-controlled label assignment (ICLA) strategy that optimizes sample selection for feature contrastive learning. We conduct comprehensive experiments on challenging datasets, with the proposed method achieving 73.89% mAP on DIOR, 95.04% mAP on NWPU VHR-10, and 26.4% AP on AI-TOD, demonstrating its effectiveness and superior performance.

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remote sensing

object detection

small weak object

contrastive learning

feature alignment

Self-Supervised Feature Contrastive Learning for Small Weak Object Detection in Remote Sensing

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