The invention discloses a dense
small target detection method for an unmanned aerial vehicle
aerial photography scene, and belongs to the technical field of
computer vision and target detection. In order to solve the problems of
small target scale dynamic change and feature expression weakening caused by
flight height change, imaging resolution difference and scene complexity in
aerial photography of an unmanned aerial vehicle, the invention provides a detection framework fusing an attention
scale selection (AGSS) module and a dynamic local self-attention (DPSA) module. The method specifically comprises the following improvements: (1) an AGSS module enhances the significance and discrimination ability of small targets in multi-scale features through global context modeling and a dynamic
weight distribution mechanism; and (2) a DPSA module introduces a sparse selection mechanism in a channel dimension, and focuses computing resources on a channel sensitive to a
small target, so that efficient and lightweight attention modeling is realized. The above modules cooperate with each other, so that high reasoning efficiency is maintained, and small target detection precision and robustness in a complex background, low illumination and dense target scene are significantly improved. Experimental results show that on typical unmanned aerial vehicle
aerial photography data sets such as VisDrone-DET2019 and the like, the method is superior to an existing mainstream method in multiple indexes such as the average precision (mAP), the accuracy rate and the
recall rate, especially has obvious advantages in the aspects of integrity and stability of small target detection, and has good practical application value and popularization prospects.