EST-YOLOv5s: SAR Image Aircraft Target Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv5s

Due to the diversity of aircraft target scale and interference of background strong scattering in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, it is a challenge for target detection tasks. In response to these problems, this paper proposes a new SAR image aircraft target detection model named EST-YOLOv5s....

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Main Authors: Min Huang, Weihao Yan, Wenhui Dai, Jingyang Wang
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10274975/
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Weihao Yan
Wenhui Dai
Jingyang Wang
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description Due to the diversity of aircraft target scale and interference of background strong scattering in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, it is a challenge for target detection tasks. In response to these problems, this paper proposes a new SAR image aircraft target detection model named EST-YOLOv5s. The proposed model integrates the Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) mechanism into the C3 module of the backbone network, which enhances the scattering features of aircraft targets and suppresses irrelevant background information without increasing the number of parameters. Secondly, replace the bottleneck module in the last C3 module in the backbone network with the Swin Transformer Block. By using the shifted window partitioning approach to obtain the global perception ability, the problem of missed detection of small objects is improved. Finally, the Task-Specific Context Decoupling (TSCODE) head is used to balance the relationship between classification and regression so that different contextual details can be better utilized. In this paper, the SAR Aircraft Detection Dataset (SADD) is used as the experimental data set to compare with the baseline model YOLOv5s. The experimental outcomes indicate that the recall of the EST-YOLOv5s model reached 94.2%, the precision reached 97.3%, and the mAP@50 reached 97.8%, which were 2.3%, 1.7%, and 1.7% higher than YOLOv5s respectively. Furthermore, our model also meets the real-time requirements in terms of speed and exhibits strong anti-interference ability.
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spelling doaj.art-4ee8d53f7a254114985d175424c5f4bc2023-10-19T23:01:32ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-011111302711304110.1109/ACCESS.2023.332357510274975EST-YOLOv5s: SAR Image Aircraft Target Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv5sMin Huang0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6152-7912Weihao Yan1https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4618-4326Wenhui Dai2https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7829-2105Jingyang Wang3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3829-6540Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, ChinaHebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, ChinaHebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, ChinaHebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, ChinaDue to the diversity of aircraft target scale and interference of background strong scattering in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, it is a challenge for target detection tasks. In response to these problems, this paper proposes a new SAR image aircraft target detection model named EST-YOLOv5s. The proposed model integrates the Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) mechanism into the C3 module of the backbone network, which enhances the scattering features of aircraft targets and suppresses irrelevant background information without increasing the number of parameters. Secondly, replace the bottleneck module in the last C3 module in the backbone network with the Swin Transformer Block. By using the shifted window partitioning approach to obtain the global perception ability, the problem of missed detection of small objects is improved. Finally, the Task-Specific Context Decoupling (TSCODE) head is used to balance the relationship between classification and regression so that different contextual details can be better utilized. In this paper, the SAR Aircraft Detection Dataset (SADD) is used as the experimental data set to compare with the baseline model YOLOv5s. The experimental outcomes indicate that the recall of the EST-YOLOv5s model reached 94.2%, the precision reached 97.3%, and the mAP@50 reached 97.8%, which were 2.3%, 1.7%, and 1.7% higher than YOLOv5s respectively. Furthermore, our model also meets the real-time requirements in terms of speed and exhibits strong anti-interference ability.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10274975/Aircraft target detectionanti-interferenceSAREST-YOLOv5sECAswin transformer
spellingShingle Min Huang
Weihao Yan
Wenhui Dai
Jingyang Wang
EST-YOLOv5s: SAR Image Aircraft Target Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv5s
IEEE Access
Aircraft target detection
anti-interference
SAR
EST-YOLOv5s
ECA
swin transformer
title EST-YOLOv5s: SAR Image Aircraft Target Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv5s
title_full EST-YOLOv5s: SAR Image Aircraft Target Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv5s
title_fullStr EST-YOLOv5s: SAR Image Aircraft Target Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv5s
title_full_unstemmed EST-YOLOv5s: SAR Image Aircraft Target Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv5s
title_short EST-YOLOv5s: SAR Image Aircraft Target Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv5s
title_sort est yolov5s sar image aircraft target detection model based on improved yolov5s
topic Aircraft target detection
anti-interference
SAR
EST-YOLOv5s
ECA
swin transformer
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10274975/
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