Dual-Strategy Improvement of YOLOv11n for Multi-Scale Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

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Main Authors: Zhu, Shuaiyu, Ablameyko, Sergey
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Published: 2026
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author Zhu, Shuaiyu
Ablameyko, Sergey
author_facet Zhu, Shuaiyu
Ablameyko, Sergey
contents Satellite remote sensing images pose significant challenges for object detection due to their high resolution, complex scenes, and large variations in target scales. To address the insufficient detection accuracy of the YOLOv11n model in remote sensing imagery, this paper proposes two improvement strategies. Method 1: (a) a Large Separable Kernel Attention (LSKA) mechanism is introduced into the backbone network to enhance feature extraction for small objects; (b) a Gold-YOLO structure is incorporated into the neck network to achieve multi-scale feature fusion, thereby improving the detection performance of objects at different scales. Method 2: (a) the Gold-YOLO structure is also integrated into the neck network; (b) a MultiSEAMHead detection head is combined to further strengthen the representation and detection capability for small and multi-scale objects. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed improvements, experiments are conducted on the DOTAv1 dataset. The results show that, while maintaining the lightweight advantage of the model, the proposed methods improve detection accuracy (mAP@0.5) by 1.3% and 1.8%, respectively, compared with the baseline YOLOv11n, demonstrating the effectiveness and practical value of the proposed approaches for object detection in remote sensing images.
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spellingShingle Dual-Strategy Improvement of YOLOv11n for Multi-Scale Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images
Zhu, Shuaiyu
Ablameyko, Sergey
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Satellite remote sensing images pose significant challenges for object detection due to their high resolution, complex scenes, and large variations in target scales. To address the insufficient detection accuracy of the YOLOv11n model in remote sensing imagery, this paper proposes two improvement strategies. Method 1: (a) a Large Separable Kernel Attention (LSKA) mechanism is introduced into the backbone network to enhance feature extraction for small objects; (b) a Gold-YOLO structure is incorporated into the neck network to achieve multi-scale feature fusion, thereby improving the detection performance of objects at different scales. Method 2: (a) the Gold-YOLO structure is also integrated into the neck network; (b) a MultiSEAMHead detection head is combined to further strengthen the representation and detection capability for small and multi-scale objects. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed improvements, experiments are conducted on the DOTAv1 dataset. The results show that, while maintaining the lightweight advantage of the model, the proposed methods improve detection accuracy (mAP@0.5) by 1.3% and 1.8%, respectively, compared with the baseline YOLOv11n, demonstrating the effectiveness and practical value of the proposed approaches for object detection in remote sensing images.
title Dual-Strategy Improvement of YOLOv11n for Multi-Scale Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13879