Oriented Bounding Boxes for Small and Freely Rotated Objects
Mohsen Zand, Ali Etemad, and Michael Greenspan

TL;DR
This paper introduces a CNN-based object detection method capable of accurately localizing and orienting small, arbitrarily rotated objects in remote sensing images without relying on external resources like anchor boxes.
Contribution
It proposes a novel classification-based approach for oriented bounding box detection that handles tiny and rotated objects efficiently without additional computational overhead.
Findings
Improves detection accuracy on xView and DOTA datasets.
Effectively detects objects as small as 2x2 pixels.
Enables orientation estimation without extra computation.
Abstract
A novel object detection method is presented that handles freely rotated objects of arbitrary sizes, including tiny objects as small as pixels. Such tiny objects appear frequently in remotely sensed images, and present a challenge to recent object detection algorithms. More importantly, current object detection methods have been designed originally to accommodate axis-aligned bounding box detection, and therefore fail to accurately localize oriented boxes that best describe freely rotated objects. In contrast, the proposed CNN-based approach uses potential pixel information at multiple scale levels without the need for any external resources, such as anchor boxes.The method encodes the precise location and orientation of features of the target objects at grid cell locations. Unlike existing methods which regress the bounding box location and dimension,the proposed method…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Neural Network Applications · Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques · Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
