# Tucker Bilinear Attention Network for Multi-scale Remote Sensing Object Detection

Source: [Tucker Bilinear Attention Network for Multi-scale Remote Sensing Object Detection](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6f771e209131cea45c1e>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-26T01:20:27.449Z

Authors: Tao Chen, Ruirui Li, Jiafeng Fu, Daguang Jiang

Published: 2023-03-09T15:20:03.000Z

## Abstract

Object detection on VHR remote sensing images plays a vital role in applications such as urban planning, land resource management, and rescue missions. The large-scale variation of the remote-sensing targets is one of the main challenges in VHR remote-sensing object detection. Existing methods improve the detection accuracy of high-resolution remote sensing objects by improving the structure of feature pyramids and adopting different attention modules. However, for small targets, there still be seriously missed detections due to the loss of key detail features. There is still room for improvement in the way of multiscale feature fusion and balance. To address this issue, this paper proposes two novel modules: Guided Attention and Tucker Bilinear Attention, which are applied to the stages of early fusion and late fusion respectively. The former can effectively retain clean key detail features, and the latter can better balance features through semantic-level correlation mining. Based on two modules, we build a new multi-scale remote sensing object detection framework. No bells and whistles. The proposed method largely improves the average precisions of small objects and achieves the highest mean average precisions compared with 9 state-of-the-art methods on DOTA, DIOR, and NWPU VHR-10.Code and models are available at https://github.com/Shinichict/GTNet.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05329>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.05329.pdf>)
