To incorporate object locations in a multi-target detection model, we assume that a close duplicate cannot be learned by the model efficiently. So, we use a region-based approach which uses more object location compared to the ground truth locations to localize the targets. The proposed model is able to learn a similarity metric with respect to the ground truth locations which is robust (low false positives) enough for varying images conditions, small aerial target sizes and using few training samples. We report preliminary results on how transfer learning of meta-data a effects small aerial target localization accuracies. Quality ranking from Intersection-over-Union (IOU) in region segmentation models on the aerial ground truth data using pre-trained models from ImageNet, AlexNet, and CIFAR-10 and initialization with three aerial datasets such as the satellite imagery XView2.
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