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Firstly, based on the common low-level visual features of natural images and airport remote sensing images, region-based convolutional neural networks are chosen to conduct transfer learning for airplane images using a limited amount of data. Then, the L2 norm normalization, feature connection, scale scaling, and feature dimension reduction are introduced to achieve effective fusion of low- and high-level features. Finally, a nonmaximal suppression method based on a soft decision function is proposed to solve the overlap problem of detection boxes. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the representation ability of weak and small objects, as well as quickly and accurately detect airplane objects in the airport area.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11091062","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,9]],"date-time":"2019-05-09T08:19:59Z","timestamp":1557389999000},"page":"1062","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":31,"title":["Effective Airplane Detection in Remote Sensing Images Based on Multilayer Feature Fusion and Improved Nonmaximal Suppression Algorithm"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Mingming","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710038, China"}]},{"given":"Yuelei","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Unmanned System Research Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}]},{"given":"Shiping","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aeronautics Engineering College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710038, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7562-9220","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuai","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710038, China"}]},{"given":"Hongqiang","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aviation Maintenance NCO Academy, Air Force Engineering University, Xinyang 464000, China"}]},{"given":"Yongsai","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710038, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"101","article-title":"Weak ship object detection of noisy optical remote sensing image on sea surface","volume":"37","author":"Song","year":"2017","journal-title":"Acta Opt. 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