Concurrent Segmentation and Object Detection CNNs for Aircraft Detection and Identification in Satellite Images

27 May 2020  ·  Damien Grosgeorge, Maxime Arbelot, Alex Goupilleau, Tugdual Ceillier, Renaud Allioux ·

Detecting and identifying objects in satellite images is a very challenging task: objects of interest are often very small and features can be difficult to recognize even using very high resolution imagery. For most applications, this translates into a trade-off between recall and precision. We present here a dedicated method to detect and identify aircraft, combining two very different convolutional neural networks (CNNs): a segmentation model, based on a modified U-net architecture, and a detection model, based on the RetinaNet architecture. The results we present show that this combination outperforms significantly each unitary model, reducing drastically the false negative rate.

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