面向降质光电图像的脑启发无人机小目标鲁棒检测方法
Brain-Inspired Robust Detection Method for Small UAV Targets in Degraded Electro-Optical Images
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摘要: 复杂环境下的噪声干扰,包括传感器噪声、电子干扰以及天气条件等因素,会显著降低无人机目标检测的准确性和鲁棒性。这些干扰因素不仅会影响图像的质量,还可能导致目标特征的丢失或失真,从而对检测模型的性能产生负面影响。特别是在无人机检测任务中,目标通常较小且背景复杂,噪声干扰会进一步加剧检测难度。针对这一问题,提出了一种基于初级视皮层多尺度方位选择性感受野的目标检测模型(YOLO with Multiscale Orientation-selective Receptive Fields,MORF-YOLO),提升模型在噪声环境下的目标检测性能。该方法借鉴了人类视觉系统的特性,利用多尺度各向异性高斯核模拟初级视皮层中神经元的感受野机制,以提取图像中的多尺度、方位选择性特征。MORF-YOLO通过在YOLO目标检测框架中引入视觉信息引导模块,增强了低层特征的表征能力,从而提高了模型对噪声干扰的适应性和鲁棒性。为验证模型的有效性,在AntiUAV2021无人机数据集上构建了包含不同噪声水平的数据集,并对比了MORF-YOLO与现有主流目标检测方法(如YOLOv5、DiffusionDet和DETR)的性能表现。实验结果表明,MORF-YOLO在无噪声及不同强度噪声条件下均表现出优异的检测精度。特别是在强高斯噪声场景(噪声方差为0.18)下,MORF-YOLO的检测精度(mAP@0.5)较其他方法提升了5%~30%。在低噪声和中等噪声条件下,其精确率和召回率也显著优于对比方法。此外,在模糊干扰和椒盐噪声条件下,MORF-YOLO同样表现出更强的鲁棒性,能够有效减少误检率并提高检测稳定性。Abstract: In complex environments, various types of noise interference, including sensor noise, electronic interference, and weather conditions, can significantly degrade the accuracy and robustness of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) target detection. These interferences not only deteriorate image quality but also lead to the loss or distortion of target features, thereby negatively impacting the performance of detection models. This problem is particularly pronounced in UAV detection tasks, where targets are often small and the background is highly complex, making detection even more challenging under noise interference. To address this issue, this study proposes a novel target detection model inspired by the multiscale orientation-selective receptive fields of the primary visual cortex (V1), termed MORF-YOLO. This model leverages the characteristics of the human visual system, employing anisotropic Gaussian kernels to simulate the receptive field mechanisms of V1 neurons, thereby extracting multi-scale and orientation-selective features from images. Integrating a V1 visual information guidance module (MORF module) into the YOLO object detection framework, MORF-YOLO enhances the representation ability of low-level features, significantly improving the adaptability and robustness of the model to noise interference. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed model, we constructed a dataset with varying noise levels based on the AntiUAV2021 dataset. We compared the performance of MORF-YOLO with those of several state-of-the-art object detection methods, including YOLOv5, DiffusionDet, and DETR. Experimental results demonstrate that MORF-YOLO achieves superior detection accuracy under both noise-free and different noise-intensity conditions. Specifically, in strong Gaussian noise scenarios (with a noise variance of 0.18), MORF-YOLO exhibits a 5%-30% improvement in detection precision (mAP@0.5) compared with other methods. Moreover, under low and medium noise conditions, MORF-YOLO shows significantly higher precision and recall rates than the compared methods. Additionally, in blurred noise and salt pepper noise scenarios, MORF-YOLO demonstrates stronger robustness, effectively reducing false detection rates and enhancing detection stability.