Real Time Detection of Small Objects

Al-Akhir Nayan, Joyeta Saha, Ahamad Nokib Mozumder, Khan Raqib Mahmud, Abul Kalam Al Azad

Published 2020-03-17Version 1

The existing real time object detection algorithm is based on the deep neural network of convolution need to perform multilevel convolution and pooling operations on the entire image to extract a deep semantic characteristic of the image. The detection models perform better for large objects. However, these models do not detect small objects with low resolution and noise, because the features of existing models do not fully represent the essential features of small objects after repeated convolution operations. We have introduced a novel real time detection algorithm which employs upsampling and skip connection to extract multiscale features at different convolution levels in a learning task resulting a remarkable performance in detecting small objects. The detection precision of the model is shown to be higher and faster than that of the state-of-the-art models.