A Fine-Grained Aircraft Target Recognition Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on YOLOV8
Fine-grained recognition plays a pivotal role in the field of remote sensing image analysis, particularly in critical applications such as reconnaissance and early warning, intelligence analysis, and intelligent interpretation. However, the extensive coverage of remote sensing images, the low pixel...
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| author | Xiao-Nan Jiang Xiang-Qian Niu Fan-Lu Wu Yao Fu He Bao Yan-Chao Fan Yu Zhang Jun-Yan Pei |
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| description | Fine-grained recognition plays a pivotal role in the field of remote sensing image analysis, particularly in critical applications such as reconnaissance and early warning, intelligence analysis, and intelligent interpretation. However, the extensive coverage of remote sensing images, the low pixel ratio of targets, and the subtlety of features pose significant challenges for fine-grained recognition of aircraft targets. This article addresses the issues of missed and false detections in existing aircraft target fine-grained recognition algorithms for remote sensing images by proposing an improved algorithm based on YOLOv8, called FD-YOLOv8 (Focus Detail-YOLOv8). Initially, this article designs a local detail feature module to tackle the problem of information loss in shallow networks. This module enhances the capture of semantic information while extracting shallow features, thereby preserving more fine-grained features and improving the network's feature extraction capability. Subsequently, a focus modulation mechanism is employed to enhance the network's interactive understanding of local and global features, thereby improving the recognition accuracy for small and challenging targets. Finally, a multitype feature fusion is designed, which optimizes the generation of feature maps by integrating local features, high-level semantic information, and low-level texture information, enhancing the accuracy of fine-grained target recognition. Experiments conducted on the public remote sensing image dataset FAIR1M demonstrated that the YOLOv8n algorithm achieved a mean average precision (mAP) of 81.8% for aircraft category recognition tasks. In contrast, FD-YOLOv8 exhibited superior performance, with an mAP of 85.0%, indicating a significant advantage in fine-grained recognition. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-21074af7d5194bba952c06ca2bb9c1ef2025-01-30T00:00:16ZengIEEEIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing1939-14042151-15352025-01-01184060407310.1109/JSTARS.2025.352698210833740A Fine-Grained Aircraft Target Recognition Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on YOLOV8Xiao-Nan Jiang0https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8036-2270Xiang-Qian Niu1https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6689-8720Fan-Lu Wu2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2231-7063Yao Fu3He Bao4Yan-Chao Fan5Yu Zhang6Jun-Yan Pei7Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, ChinaFine-grained recognition plays a pivotal role in the field of remote sensing image analysis, particularly in critical applications such as reconnaissance and early warning, intelligence analysis, and intelligent interpretation. However, the extensive coverage of remote sensing images, the low pixel ratio of targets, and the subtlety of features pose significant challenges for fine-grained recognition of aircraft targets. This article addresses the issues of missed and false detections in existing aircraft target fine-grained recognition algorithms for remote sensing images by proposing an improved algorithm based on YOLOv8, called FD-YOLOv8 (Focus Detail-YOLOv8). Initially, this article designs a local detail feature module to tackle the problem of information loss in shallow networks. This module enhances the capture of semantic information while extracting shallow features, thereby preserving more fine-grained features and improving the network's feature extraction capability. Subsequently, a focus modulation mechanism is employed to enhance the network's interactive understanding of local and global features, thereby improving the recognition accuracy for small and challenging targets. Finally, a multitype feature fusion is designed, which optimizes the generation of feature maps by integrating local features, high-level semantic information, and low-level texture information, enhancing the accuracy of fine-grained target recognition. Experiments conducted on the public remote sensing image dataset FAIR1M demonstrated that the YOLOv8n algorithm achieved a mean average precision (mAP) of 81.8% for aircraft category recognition tasks. In contrast, FD-YOLOv8 exhibited superior performance, with an mAP of 85.0%, indicating a significant advantage in fine-grained recognition.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10833740/Feature fusionfine-grained recognitionremote sensing imagesYOLOv8 |
| spellingShingle | Xiao-Nan Jiang Xiang-Qian Niu Fan-Lu Wu Yao Fu He Bao Yan-Chao Fan Yu Zhang Jun-Yan Pei A Fine-Grained Aircraft Target Recognition Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on YOLOV8 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing Feature fusion fine-grained recognition remote sensing images YOLOv8 |
| title | A Fine-Grained Aircraft Target Recognition Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on YOLOV8 |
| title_full | A Fine-Grained Aircraft Target Recognition Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on YOLOV8 |
| title_fullStr | A Fine-Grained Aircraft Target Recognition Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on YOLOV8 |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Fine-Grained Aircraft Target Recognition Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on YOLOV8 |
| title_short | A Fine-Grained Aircraft Target Recognition Algorithm for Remote Sensing Images Based on YOLOV8 |
| title_sort | fine grained aircraft target recognition algorithm for remote sensing images based on yolov8 |
| topic | Feature fusion fine-grained recognition remote sensing images YOLOv8 |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10833740/ |
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