DLSW-YOLOv8n: A Novel Small Maritime Search and Rescue Object Detection Framework for UAV Images with Deformable Large Kernel Net

Autor: Zhumu Fu, Yuehao Xiao, Fazhan Tao, Pengju Si, Longlong Zhu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Drones, Vol 8, Iss 7, p 310 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2504-446X
DOI: 10.3390/drones8070310
Popis: Unmanned aerial vehicle maritime search and rescue target detection is susceptible to external factors, which can seriously reduce detection accuracy. To address these challenges, the DLSW-YOLOv8n algorithm is proposed combining Deformable Large Kernel Net (DL-Net), SPD-Conv, and WIOU. Firstly, to refine the contextual understanding ability of the model, the DL-Net is integrated into the C2f module of the backbone network. Secondly, to enhance the small target characterization representation, a spatial-depth layer is used instead of pooling in the convolution module, and an additional detection head is integrated into the low-level feature map. The loss function is improved to enhance small target localization performance. Finally, a UAV maritime target detection dataset is employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, whose results show that DLSW-YOLOv8n achieves a detection accuracy of 79.5%, which represents an improvement of 13.1% compared to YOLOv8n.
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