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This article provides a comparative evaluation of the state-of-the-art convolutional neural network (CNN)-based object detection models, which are Faster R-CNN, Single Shot Multi-box Detector (SSD), and You Look Only Once-v3 (YOLO-v3), to cope with the limited number of labeled data and to automatically detect airplanes in VHR satellite images. Data augmentation with rotation, rescaling, and cropping was applied on the test images to artificially increase the number of training data from satellite images. Moreover, a non-maximum suppression algorithm (NMS) was introduced at the end of the SSD and YOLO-v3 flows to get rid of the multiple detection occurrences near each detected object in the overlapping areas. The trained networks were applied to five independent VHR test images that cover airports and their surroundings to evaluate their performance objectively. Accuracy assessment results of the test regions proved that Faster R-CNN architecture provided the highest accuracy according to the F1 scores, average precision (AP) metrics, and visual inspection of the results. The YOLO-v3 ranked as second, with a slightly lower performance but providing a balanced trade-off between accuracy and speed. The SSD provided the lowest detection performance, but it was better in object localization. The results were also evaluated in terms of the object size and detection accuracy manner, which proved that large- and medium-sized airplanes were detected with higher accuracy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12030458","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,5]],"date-time":"2020-02-05T03:18:48Z","timestamp":1580872728000},"page":"458","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":124,"title":["Comparative Research on Deep Learning Approaches for Airplane Detection from Very High-Resolution Satellite Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5693-3614","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ugur","family":"Alganci","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, ITU Ayazaga Campus, Civil Engineering Faculty, Sariyer, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mehmet","family":"Soydas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Informatics, Satellite Communication and Remote Sensing Program, Istanbul Technical University, ITU Ayazaga Campus, Institute of Informatics Building, Sariyer, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4854-494X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elif","family":"Sertel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geomatics Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, ITU Ayazaga Campus, Civil Engineering Faculty, Sariyer, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11","DOI":"10.1016\/j.isprsjprs.2016.03.014","article-title":"A survey on object detection in optical remote sensing images","volume":"117","author":"Cheng","year":"2016","journal-title":"ISPRS J. 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