G2HFNet: GeoGran-Aware Hierarchical Feature Fusion Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wan, Bin, Cong, Runmin, Zhou, Xiaofei, Fang, Hao, Lv, Chengtao, Kwong, Sam
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866917353892085760
author Wan, Bin
Cong, Runmin
Zhou, Xiaofei
Fang, Hao
Lv, Chengtao
Kwong, Sam
author_facet Wan, Bin
Cong, Runmin
Zhou, Xiaofei
Fang, Hao
Lv, Chengtao
Kwong, Sam
contents Remote sensing images captured from aerial perspectives often exhibit significant scale variations and complex backgrounds, posing challenges for salient object detection (SOD). Existing methods typically extract multi-level features at a single scale using uniform attention mechanisms, leading to suboptimal representations and incomplete detection results. To address these issues, we propose a GeoGran-Aware Hierarchical Feature Fusion Network (G2HFNet) that fully exploits geometric and granular cues in optical remote sensing images. Specifically, G2HFNet adopts Swin Transformer as the backbone to extract multi-level features and integrates three key modules: the multi-scale detail enhancement (MDE) module to handle object scale variations and enrich fine details, the dual-branch geo-gran complementary (DGC) module to jointly capture fine-grained details and positional information in mid-level features, and the deep semantic perception (DSP) module to refine high-level positional cues via self-attention. Additionally, a local-global guidance fusion (LGF) module is introduced to replace traditional convolutions for effective multi-level feature integration. Extensive experiments demonstrate that G2HFNet achieves high-quality saliency maps and significantly improves detection performance in challenging remote sensing scenarios.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2603_12680
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle G2HFNet: GeoGran-Aware Hierarchical Feature Fusion Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images
Wan, Bin
Cong, Runmin
Zhou, Xiaofei
Fang, Hao
Lv, Chengtao
Kwong, Sam
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Remote sensing images captured from aerial perspectives often exhibit significant scale variations and complex backgrounds, posing challenges for salient object detection (SOD). Existing methods typically extract multi-level features at a single scale using uniform attention mechanisms, leading to suboptimal representations and incomplete detection results. To address these issues, we propose a GeoGran-Aware Hierarchical Feature Fusion Network (G2HFNet) that fully exploits geometric and granular cues in optical remote sensing images. Specifically, G2HFNet adopts Swin Transformer as the backbone to extract multi-level features and integrates three key modules: the multi-scale detail enhancement (MDE) module to handle object scale variations and enrich fine details, the dual-branch geo-gran complementary (DGC) module to jointly capture fine-grained details and positional information in mid-level features, and the deep semantic perception (DSP) module to refine high-level positional cues via self-attention. Additionally, a local-global guidance fusion (LGF) module is introduced to replace traditional convolutions for effective multi-level feature integration. Extensive experiments demonstrate that G2HFNet achieves high-quality saliency maps and significantly improves detection performance in challenging remote sensing scenarios.
title G2HFNet: GeoGran-Aware Hierarchical Feature Fusion Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12680