Object Detection in Aerial Images

🔥 A curated list of awesome resources for generic object detection in aerial images.

:heavy_exclamation_mark: Updated at 2024-06.

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Contents:

• Overview
• Oriented Object Detection
• Instance Segmentation
• Small Object Detection
• UAV Object Dectection
• Dataset
• Appendix

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Overview

No. | Year | Pub. | Title | Links :-: | :-: | :-: | :- | :- 10 | 2023 | GRSM | Remote Sensing Object Detection Meets Deep Learning: A Meta-review of Challenges and Advances <br> _{^{Xiangrong Zhang, Tianyang Zhang, Guanchun Wang, Peng Zhu, Xu Tang, Xiuping Jia, Licheng Jiao}} | Paper/Code 09 | 2023 | PAMI | Towards Large-Scale Small Object Detection: Survey and Benchmarks <br> _{^{Gong Cheng, Xiang Yuan, Xiwen Yao, Kebing Yan, Qinghua Zeng, Xingxing Xie, Junwei Han}} | Paper/Data 08 | 2023 | arXiv | Oriented Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images using Deep Learning: A Survey <br> _{^{Kun Wang, Zi Wang, Zhang Li, Ang Su, Xichao Teng, Minhao Liu, Qifeng Yu}} | Paper/Code 07 | 2021 | PAMI | <span style="white-space:nowrap;">Object Detection in Aerial Images: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Challenges DOTA   </span> <br>_{^{Jian Ding, Nan Xue, Gui-Song Xia, Xiang Bai, et al.}} | Paper/Proj 06 | 2020 | IJCV | Deep Learning for Generic Object Detection: A Survey GOD <br>_{^{Li Liu, Wanli Ouyang, et al.}} | Paper/Code 05 | 2020 | JPRS | Object detection in optical remote sensing images: A survey and a new benchmark HBB <br>_{^{Ke Li, Gong Cheng, et al.}} | Paper/Data
04 | 2019 | TNNLS | Object Detection With Deep Learning: A Review GOD <br>_{^{Zhongqiu Zhao, et al.}} | Paper/Code 03 | 2018 | JPRS | A review of accuracy assessment for object-based image analysis: From per-pixel to per-polygon approaches <br>_{^{Su Ye, Rahul Rakshit, et al.}} | Paper/Code 02 | 2018 | CVPR | DOTA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Object Detection in Aerial Images DOTA <br>_{^{Gui-Song Xia, Xiang Bai, Jian Ding, Zhen Zhu, et al.}} | Paper/Code 01 | 2016 | JPRS | A survey on object detection in optical remote sensing images <br>_{^{Gong Cheng, Junwei Han}} | Paper/Code

Oriented Object Detection

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Preprint

Year | Pub. | Title | Links :-: | :-: | :- | :- 2024 | arXiv | GOOD: Towards Domain Generalized Orientated Object Detection <br>_{^{Qi Bi, Beichen Zhou, Jingjun Yi, Wei Ji, Haolan Zhan, Gui-Song Xia}} | Paper/Code 2023 | arXiv | P2RBox: A Single Point is All You Need for Oriented Object Detection <br>_{^{Guangming Cao, Xuehui Yu, Wenwen Yu, Xumeng Han, Xue Yang, Guorong Li, Jianbin Jiao, Zhenjun Han}} | Paper/Code 2022 | arXiv | DAFNe: A One-Stage Anchor-Free Deep Model for Oriented Object Detection <br>_{^{Steven Lang, et al.}} | Paper/Code

<!-- **No.** | **Pub.** | **Title** | **Authors** | **Links** :-: | :-: | :- | :- | :- 2022 | WACV | TricubeNet: 2D Kernel-Based Object Representation for Weakly-Occluded Oriented Object Detection | Beomyoung Kim, Janghyeon Lee, et al. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11435)/Code 2022 | TGRS | MRDet: A Multi-Head Network for Accurate Oriented Object Detection in Aerial Images | Ran Qin, Yunhong Wang, et al. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.13135.pdf)/Code 2021 | TGRS | CFC-Net: A Critical Feature Capturing Network for Arbitrary-Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images | Qi Ming, et al. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.06849.pdf)/[Code](https://github.com/ming71/CFC-Net) 2021 | TGRS | Align Deep Features for Oriented Object Detection | Jiaming Han, Jian Ding, et al. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09397)/[Code](https://github.com/csuhan/s2anet) 2021 | GRSL | Optimization for Oriented Object Detection via Representation Invariance Loss | Qi Ming, Zhiqiang Zhou, et al. | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11636)/[Code](https://github.com/ming71/RIDet) 2021 | TGRS | Anchor Retouching via Model Interaction for Robust Object Detection in Aerial Images <br>_{^{*Dong Liang, Qixiang Geng, et al.*}} | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06701)/[Code](https://github.com/QxGeng/DEA-Net) 2021 | arXiv06 | Oriented Object Detection with Transformer <br>_{^{*Teli Ma, et al.*}} | [Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.03146.pdf)/Code -->

2025

No. | Pub. | Title | Links :-: | :-: | :- | :- | 2025 | ICLR | PointOBB-v2: Towards Simpler, Faster, and Stronger Single Point Supervised Oriented Object Detection <br>_{^{Botao Ren, Xue Yang, Yi Yu, Junwei Luo, Zhidong Deng}} | Paper/Code | 2025 | arXiv | SM3Det: A Unified Model for Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Object Detection <br>_{^{Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li, Yunheng Li, Yicheng Zhang, Yimian Dai, Qibin Hou, Ming-Ming Cheng, Jian Yang}} | Paper/Code

2024

No. | Pub. | Title | Links :-: | :-: | :- | :- | 18 | NeurIPS | E2E-MFD: Towards End-to-End Synchronous Multimodal Fusion Detection <br>_{^{Jiaqing Zhang, Mingxiang Cao, Weiying Xie, Jie Lei, Daixun Li, Wenbo Huang, Yunsong Li, Xue Yang}} | Paper/Code | 17 | ECCV | Projecting Points to Axes: Oriented Object Detection via Point-Axis Representation <br>_{^{Zeyang Zhao, Qilong Xue, Yuhang He, Yifan Bai, Xing Wei, Yihong Gong}} | Paper/Code | 16 | ECCV | Masked Angle-Aware Autoencoder for Remote Sensing Images <br>_{^{Zhihao Li, Biao Hou, Siteng Ma, Zitong Wu, Xianpeng Guo, Bo Ren, Licheng Jiao}} | Paper/Code | 15 | JSTARS | MTP: Advancing Remote Sensing Foundation Model via Multi-Task Pretraining <br>_{^{Di Wang, Jing Zhang, Minqiang Xu, Lin Liu, Dongsheng Wang, Erzhong Gao, Chengxi Han, Haonan Guo, Bo Du, Dacheng Tao, Liangpei Zhang}} | Paper/Code | 14 | TPAMI | Learning to Holistically Detect Bridges from Large-Size VHR Remote Sensing Imagery <br> ^{_{Yansheng Li; Junwei Luo; Yongjun Zhang; Yihua Tan; Jin-Gang Yu; Song Bai}} | Paper/Code | 13 | CVPR | Weakly Misalignment-free Adaptive Feature Alignment for UAVs-based Multimodal Object Detection <br> ^{_{Chen Chen, Jiahao Qi, Xingyue Liu, Kangcheng Bin, Ruigang Fu, Xikun Hu, Ping Zhong}} | Paper/Code | 12 | CVPR | WildlifeMapper: Aerial Image Analysis for Multi-Species Detection and Identification <br> ^{_{Satish Kumar, Bowen Zhang, Chandrakanth Gudavalli, Connor Levenson, Lacey Hughey, et al.}} | Paper/Code | 11 | CVPR | Rotated Multi-Scale Interaction Network for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation <br> ^{_{Sihan Liu, Yiwei Ma, Xiaoqing Zhang, Haowei Wang, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji}} | Paper/Code | 10 | CVPR | Relational Matching for Weakly Semi-Supervised Oriented Object Detection <br> ^{_{Wenhao Wu, Hau-San Wong, Si Wu, Tianyou Zhang}} | Paper/Code | 09 | CVPR | Point2RBox: Combine Knowledge from Synthetic Visual Patterns for End-to-end Oriented Object Detection with Single Point Supervision <br> <sup><sub>*Yi Yu, Xue Yang, Qingyun Li, F