Multiscale Feature Enhancement Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

Abstract

Aircraft detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images plays an essential role in satellite observation and military decisions. Due to discrete scattering properties, speckle noise interference, and various aircraft types, many existing methods struggle to achieve the desired detection performance. In this article, we propose an innovative semantic condition constraint guided feature aware network (SCFNet) for detecting different aircraft categories in SAR images. First, considering the discrete scattering properties of aircraft, we design a local-global feature aware module (LGA-M) and morphological-semantic feature aware module (MSF-M), which can effectively extract the fine-grained feature information contained in SAR images. Second, to effectively fuse different feature information, we construct a feature fusion pyramid (FFP), which uses different branches and paths to reasonably merge multiple feature information types and suppresses background information interference. Third, according to the structure characteristics of aircraft, the global coordinate attention mechanism (G-CAT) is presented to highlight foreground target features and suppress speckle noise interference. Finally, we construct semantic condition constraints, including constraint condition setting, semantic information calculation, and template matching, to improve aircraft localization and recognition accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed SCFNet can obtain state-of-the-art performance on the SAR aircraft detection dataset, which achieves AP and F1 Score of 94.83% and 95.58%, respectively. The related implementation codes will be made publicly available at https://github.com/darkseid-arch/AirDetection.