# LUAI Challenge 2021 on Learning to Understand Aerial Images

Source: [LUAI Challenge 2021 on Learning to Understand Aerial Images](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6ac91e209131cea2a383>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2025-10-25T23:32:17.810Z

Authors: Gui-Song Xia, Jian Ding, Ming Qian, Nan Xue, Jiaming Han, Xiang Bai, Michael Ying Yang, Shengyang Li, Serge Belongie, Jiebo Luo, Mihai Datcu, Marcello Pelillo, Liangpei Zhang, Qiang Zhou, Chao-hui Yu, Kaixuan Hu, Yingjia Bu, Wenming Tan, Zhe Yang, Wei Li, Shang Liu, Jiaxuan Zhao, Tianzhi Ma, Zi-han Gao, Lingqi Wang, Yi Zuo, Licheng Jiao, Chang Meng, Hao Wang, Jiahao Wang, Yiming Hui, Zhuojun Dong, Jie Zhang, Qianyue Bao, Zixiao Zhang, Fang Liu

Published: 2021-08-30T14:03:54.000Z

## Abstract

This report summarizes the results of Learning to Understand Aerial Images (LUAI) 2021 challenge held on ICCV 2021, which focuses on object detection and semantic segmentation in aerial images. Using DOTA-v2.0 and GID-15 datasets, this challenge proposes three tasks for oriented object detection, horizontal object detection, and semantic segmentation of common categories in aerial images. This challenge received a total of 146 registrations on the three tasks. Through the challenge, we hope to draw attention from a wide range of communities and call for more efforts on the problems of learning to understand aerial images.

## Recorded benchmark results

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13246>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.13246.pdf>)