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Poster

DQ-DETR: DETR with Dynamic Query for Tiny Object Detection

Yi-Xin Huang · Hou-I Liu · Hong-Han Shuai · Wen-Huang Cheng

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Thu 3 Oct 1:30 a.m. PDT — 3:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

Despite previous DETR-like methods having performed successfully in generic object detection, tiny object detection is still a challenging task for them since the positional information of object queries is not customized for detecting tiny objects, whose scale is extraordinarily smaller than general objects. Also, DETR-like methods using a fixed number of queries make them unsuitable for aerial datasets, which mostly contain tiny objects, and the numbers of instances are imbalanced between different images. Thus, we present a simple yet effective model, DQ-DETR, consisting of three components: categorical counting module, counting-guided feature enhancement, and dynamic query selection to solve the above-mentioned problems. DQ-DETR uses the prediction and density maps from the categorical counting module to dynamically adjust the number and positional information of object queries. Our model DQ-DETR outperforms previous CNN-based and DETR-like methods, achieving state-of-the-art mAP 30.2% on the AI-TOD-V2 dataset, which mostly consists of tiny objects.

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