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Currently, extensive research has been conducted on few-shot object detection in natural scene datasets, and notable progress has been made. However, in the realm of remote sensing, this technology is still lagging behind. Furthermore, many established methods rely on two-stage detectors, prioritizing accuracy over speed, which hinders real-time applications. Considering both detection accuracy and speed, in this paper, we propose a simple few-shot object detection method based on the one-stage detector YOLOv5 with transfer learning. First, we propose a Segmentation Assistance (SA) module to guide the network\u2019s attention toward foreground targets. This module assists in training and enhances detection accuracy without increasing inference time. Second, we design a novel detection head called the Triplet Head (Tri-Head), which employs a dual distillation mechanism to mitigate the issue of forgetting base-class knowledge. Finally, we optimize the classification loss function to emphasize challenging samples. Evaluations on the NWPUv2 and DIOR datasets showcase the method\u2019s superiority.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16193630","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,30]],"date-time":"2024-09-30T05:45:27Z","timestamp":1727675127000},"page":"3630","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Few-Shot Object Detection for Remote Sensing Imagery Using Segmentation Assistance and Triplet Head"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8495-2804","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jing","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Hangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, Hangzhou 311231, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Network, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"},{"name":"School of Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"},{"name":"Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, Guangzhou 510700, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-2959-0258","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhaolong","family":"Hong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, Hangzhou 311231, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xu","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, Hangzhou 311231, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yunsong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Network, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"},{"name":"School of Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"38297","DOI":"10.1007\/s11042-022-13153-y","article-title":"Tools, techniques, datasets and application areas for object detection in an image: A review","volume":"81","author":"Kaur","year":"2022","journal-title":"Multimed. 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