CDD-Net: A Context-Driven Detection Network for Multiclass Object Detection

Unlike object detection in natural images that usually achieved great success, remote sensing imagery has its own challenges to detect and localize multiclass objects, such as large-scale change, uncertain direction, and high density. The context information of the objects is very worthwhile for solving these challenges in remote sensing images. In this letter, we propose a context-driven detection network (CDD-Net) to improve the accuracy of multiclass object detection in remote sensing images. For capturing the local neighboring objects and features, a local context feature network (LCFN) is proposed to learn the local context of the region of interest. Meanwhile, a hybrid attention pyramid network (HAPN) is designed, which can steer the focus to more valuable features. The HAPN inserts a squeeze and excitation block (SEB) and three asymmetric convolution blocks (ACBs) in the feature pyramid network (FPN). The experimental results over the DOTA-v1.5 data set demonstrate that the proposed CDD-Net yields promising results.