Adaptive Knowledge Distillation With Attention-Based Multi-Modal Fusion for Robust Dim Object Detection

• Published in: IEEE transactions on multimedia Vol. 27; pp. 2083 - 2096
• Main Authors: Lan, Zhen, Li, Zixing, Yan, Chao, Xiang, Xiaojia, Tang, Dengqing, Zhou, Han, Lai, Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.01.2025
• Subjects: Attention mechanism; Brain modeling; Computer vision; Detectors; EEG; Electroencephalography; Emotion recognition; Feature extraction; knowledge distillation; Object detection; Search problems; Training; Visualization

Automated object detection in aerial images is crucial in both civil and military applications. Existing computer vision-based object detection methods are not robust enough to precisely detect dim objects in aerial images due to the cluttered backgrounds, various observing angles, small object scal...