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Despite these advances, detecting small objects remains difficult. Most objects in aerial images have features that are a challenge for traditional object detection techniques, including small size, high density, high variability, and varying orientation. Previous approaches have used slicing methods on high-resolution images or feature maps to improve performance. However, existing slicing methods inevitably lead to redundant computation. Therefore, in this article we present a novel adaptive slicing method named ASAHI (Adaptive Slicing Aided Hyper Inference), which can dramatically reduce redundant computation using an adaptive slicing size. Specifically, ASAHI focuses on the number of slices rather than the slicing size, that is, it adaptively adjusts the slicing size to control the number of slices according to the image resolution. Additionally, we replace the standard non-maximum suppression technique with Cluster-DIoU-NMS due to its improved accuracy and inference speed in the post-processing stage. In extensive experiments, ASAHI achieves competitive performance on the VisDrone and xView datasets. The results show that the mAP50 is increased by 0.9% and the computation time is reduced by 20\u201325% compared with state-of-the-art slicing methods on the TPH-YOLOV5 pretrained model. On the VisDrone2019-DET-val dataset, our mAP50 result is 56.4% higher, demonstrating the superiority of our approach.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15051249","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,27]],"date-time":"2023-02-27T01:59:10Z","timestamp":1677463150000},"page":"1249","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["Adaptive Slicing-Aided Hyper Inference for Small Object Detection in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Hao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Education Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3887-5438","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chuanyan","family":"Hao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Education Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wanru","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Education Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6451-7565","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bo","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Education Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Baozhu","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Internet of Things & Smart City Innovation Platform, Zhuhai Fudan Innovation Institute, Zhuhai 519031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Lin, T.Y., Goyal, P., Girshick, R., He, K., and Doll\u00e1r, P. 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