End-to-end Remote Sensing Image Aircraft Target Detection and Fine-grained Recognition Framework

In view of the practical application of target detection and recognition tasks for remote sensing, an end-to-end aircraft target detection and fine-grained recognition framework is proposed. It can accurately and quickly implement detection and recognition in an end-to-end way. The main network of the framework adopts the design ideas of target detection and fine-grained recognition methods using candidate region extract and visual attention, making sure the accuracy of detection and recognition. Then, to solve the problem of high false detection rate and missed detection rate of densely arranged targets, we propose the re-detection mechanism. To minimize the large amounts of calculations of deep networks and improve real-time performance, we introduce depthwise separable convolution to optimize networks. Finally, a weight mapping idea based on transfer learning is adopted to solve the problem of data labeling and also helps the detection and fine-grained recognition. The results prove that the proposed framework has good robustness, versatility, and efficiency in aircraft detection and fine-grained recognition tasks.