Object Detection on SAR Images Via YOLOv10 and Integrated ACmix Attention Mechanism
Zhuo Wang, Fucheng Miao, Youxiang Huang, Zhiyi Lu, Tomoaki Otsuki Ohtsuki, Guan Gui · 2024
With the rapid advancement of deep learning techniques, object detection on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images has shown increasing potential in recent years. However, due to the unique microwave imaging mechanism of SAR, targets can easily be confused with background structures like harbors and aircraft aprons, leading to poor recognition accuracy. In this paper, we propose YOLOv10n-ACmix, an enhanced object detection model that integrates the ACmix attention mechanism into the YOLOv10 framework to improve feature extraction and detection precision. Through experiments conducted on the SARaircraft and MSAR datasets, YOLOv10n-ACmix consistently outperformed YOLOv5, YOLOv8 and YOLOv10 in precision, recall, and mean Average Precision (mAP). The inclusion of the ACmix mechanism enables the model to focus more effectively on critical features, resulting in more accurate detections. Despite a slight increase in computational complexity, the significant improvements in detection performance make YOLOv10n-ACmix a robust choice for high-precision object detection in SAR images. This work highlights the potential of attention mechanisms to enhance object detection in complex, large-scale SAR image datasets.