Object detection in pleiades images using deep features

Abstract

Extracting and identifying objects in very high resolution imagery has been a popular research topic in remote sensing. Since the beginning of this decade, deep learning techniques have revolutionized computer vision providing significant performance gains compared to traditional “shallow” techniques in various challenging vision problems. The training of deep neural networks usually requires very large training datasets. The advantage of using deep features is to exploit already trained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in order to produce high level features without the burden of having to train a CNN from scratch. In this paper, we are investigating the use of deep features for the detection of small objects (cars and individual trees) in high resolution Pleiades imagery. Preliminary results show good detection performance and are very encouraging for future applications.