DOTA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Object Detection in Aerial Images
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Object detection is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. Although the past decade has witnessed major advances in object detection in natural scenes, such successes have been slow to aerial imagery, not only because of the huge variation in the scale, orientation and shape of the object instances on the earth's surface, but also due to the scarcity of well-annotated datasets of objects in aerial scenes. To advance object detection research in Earth Vision, also known as Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, we introduce a large-scale Dataset for Object deTection in Aerial images (DOTA). To this end, we collect 2806 aerial images from different sensors and platforms. Each image is of the size about 4000 Ã - 4000 pixels and contains objects exhibiting a wide variety of scales, orientations, and shapes. These DOTA images are then annotated by experts in aerial image interpretation using 15 common object categories. The fully annotated DOTA images contains 188, 282 instances, each of which is labeled by an arbitrary (8 d.o.f.) quadrilateral. To build a baseline for object detection in Earth Vision, we evaluate state-of-the-art object detection algorithms on DOTA. Experiments demonstrate that DOTA well represents real Earth Vision applications and are quite challenging.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
Number of pages | 10 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Publication date | 14 Dec 2018 |
Pages | 3974-3983 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Dec 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 31st Meeting of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2018 - Salt Lake City, United States Duration: 18 Jun 2018 → 22 Jun 2018 |
Conference
Conference | 31st Meeting of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2018 |
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Land | United States |
By | Salt Lake City |
Periode | 18/06/2018 → 22/06/2018 |
Series | Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
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ISSN | 1063-6919 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
This research is supported by NSFC projects under the contracts No.61771350 and No.41501462. Dr. Xiang Bai is supported by the National Program for Support of Topnotch Young Professionals. We thank Fan Hu, Pu Jin, Xinyi Tong, Xuan Hu, Zhipeng Dong, Liang Wu, Jun Tang, Linyan Cui, Duoyou Zhou, Tengteng Huang, and all the others who involved in the annotations of DOTA.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
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