An Empirical Study of Methods for Small Object Detection from Satellite Imagery

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Main Authors: Yuan, Xiaohui, Chakravarty, Aniv, Gu, Lichuan, Wei, Zhenchun, Lichtenberg, Elinor, Chen, Tian
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Published: 2025
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author Yuan, Xiaohui
Chakravarty, Aniv
Gu, Lichuan
Wei, Zhenchun
Lichtenberg, Elinor
Chen, Tian
author_facet Yuan, Xiaohui
Chakravarty, Aniv
Gu, Lichuan
Wei, Zhenchun
Lichtenberg, Elinor
Chen, Tian
contents This paper reviews object detection methods for finding small objects from remote sensing imagery and provides an empirical evaluation of four state-of-the-art methods to gain insights into method performance and technical challenges. In particular, we use car detection from urban satellite images and bee box detection from satellite images of agricultural lands as application scenarios. Drawing from the existing surveys and literature, we identify several top-performing methods for the empirical study. Public, high-resolution satellite image datasets are used in our experiments.
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spellingShingle An Empirical Study of Methods for Small Object Detection from Satellite Imagery
Yuan, Xiaohui
Chakravarty, Aniv
Gu, Lichuan
Wei, Zhenchun
Lichtenberg, Elinor
Chen, Tian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
This paper reviews object detection methods for finding small objects from remote sensing imagery and provides an empirical evaluation of four state-of-the-art methods to gain insights into method performance and technical challenges. In particular, we use car detection from urban satellite images and bee box detection from satellite images of agricultural lands as application scenarios. Drawing from the existing surveys and literature, we identify several top-performing methods for the empirical study. Public, high-resolution satellite image datasets are used in our experiments.
title An Empirical Study of Methods for Small Object Detection from Satellite Imagery
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03674