Boundary and Position Information Mining for Aerial Small Object Detection
This work addresses the challenge of detecting small objects in drone-captured aerial images, which suffer from significant scale variation and blurred boundaries. To tackle this issue, the authors propose a Boundary and Position Information Mining (BPIM) framework that integrates Position Information Guidance (PIG), Boundary Information Guidance (BIG), Cross-Scale Fusion (CSF), and Triple Feature Fusion (TFF), complemented by an Adaptive Weight Fusion (AWF) mechanism. This design effectively enhances contextual awareness and discriminative capability for small objects. Evaluated on the VisDrone2021, DOTA1.0, and WiderPerson benchmarks, BPIM substantially outperforms the YOLOv5-P2 baseline, achieving state-of-the-art performance while maintaining manageable computational overhead.