Single Shot Feature Aggregation Network for Underwater Object Detection

Abstract

The rapidly developing ocean exploration and observation make the demand for underwater object detection become increasingly urgent. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown strong ability in feature representation and CNN-based detectors also achieve remarkable performance, but still facing the big challenge when detecting multi-scale objects in a complex underwater environment. To address this challenge, we propose a novel underwater object detector, introducing multiscale features and complementary context information for better classification and location ability. In the auto-grabbing contest of 2017 Underwater Robot Picking Contest sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), we won the 1-st place by using proposed method for real coastal underwater object detection.