Small object detection based on hierarchical attention mechanism and multi‐scale separable detection

• Published in: IET image processing Vol. 17; no. 14; pp. 3986 - 3999
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yafeng, Yu, Junyang, Wang, Yuanyuan, Tang, Shuang, Li, Han, Xin, Zhiyi, Wang, Chaoyi, Zhao, Ziming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 01.12.2023
• Subjects: image recognition; object detection

The ability of modern detectors to detect small targets is still an unresolved topic compared to their capability of detecting medium and large targets in the field of object detection. Accurately detecting and identifying small objects in the real‐world scenario suffer from sub‐optimal performance...