On the Robustness of Object Detection Models on Aerial Images

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Autori principali: He, Haodong, Ding, Jian, Xu, Bowen, Xia, Gui-Song
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author He, Haodong
Ding, Jian
Xu, Bowen
Xia, Gui-Song
author_facet He, Haodong
Ding, Jian
Xu, Bowen
Xia, Gui-Song
contents The robustness of object detection models is a major concern when applied to real-world scenarios. The performance of most models tends to degrade when confronted with images affected by corruptions, since they are usually trained and evaluated on clean datasets. While numerous studies have explored the robustness of object detection models on natural images, there is a paucity of research focused on models applied to aerial images, which feature complex backgrounds, substantial variations in scales, and orientations of objects. This paper addresses the challenge of assessing the robustness of object detection models on aerial images, with a specific emphasis on scenarios where images are affected by clouds. In this study, we introduce two novel benchmarks based on DOTA-v1.0. The first benchmark encompasses 19 prevalent corruptions, while the second focuses on the cloud-corrupted condition-a phenomenon uncommon in natural images yet frequent in aerial photography. We systematically evaluate the robustness of mainstream object detection models and perform necessary ablation experiments. Through our investigations, we find that rotation-invariant modeling and enhanced backbone architectures can improve the robustness of models. Furthermore, increasing the capacity of Transformer-based backbones can strengthen their robustness. The benchmarks we propose and our comprehensive experimental analyses can facilitate research on robust object detection on aerial images. The codes and datasets are available at: https://github.com/hehaodong530/DOTA-C.
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spellingShingle On the Robustness of Object Detection Models on Aerial Images
He, Haodong
Ding, Jian
Xu, Bowen
Xia, Gui-Song
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The robustness of object detection models is a major concern when applied to real-world scenarios. The performance of most models tends to degrade when confronted with images affected by corruptions, since they are usually trained and evaluated on clean datasets. While numerous studies have explored the robustness of object detection models on natural images, there is a paucity of research focused on models applied to aerial images, which feature complex backgrounds, substantial variations in scales, and orientations of objects. This paper addresses the challenge of assessing the robustness of object detection models on aerial images, with a specific emphasis on scenarios where images are affected by clouds. In this study, we introduce two novel benchmarks based on DOTA-v1.0. The first benchmark encompasses 19 prevalent corruptions, while the second focuses on the cloud-corrupted condition-a phenomenon uncommon in natural images yet frequent in aerial photography. We systematically evaluate the robustness of mainstream object detection models and perform necessary ablation experiments. Through our investigations, we find that rotation-invariant modeling and enhanced backbone architectures can improve the robustness of models. Furthermore, increasing the capacity of Transformer-based backbones can strengthen their robustness. The benchmarks we propose and our comprehensive experimental analyses can facilitate research on robust object detection on aerial images. The codes and datasets are available at: https://github.com/hehaodong530/DOTA-C.
title On the Robustness of Object Detection Models on Aerial Images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15378