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While multi-scale feature modeling optimization remains a persistent research focus, existing methods frequently overlook the symmetrical balance between feature granularity and morphological diversity, particularly when handling high-aspect-ratio RS targets with anisotropic geometries. This oversight leads to suboptimal feature representations characterized by spatial sparsity and directional bias. To address this challenge, we propose the Parallel Interleaved Convolutional Kernel Network (PICK-Net), a rotation-aware detection framework that embodies symmetry principles through dual-path feature modulation and geometrically balanced operator design. The core innovation lies in the synergistic integration of cascaded dynamic sparse sampling and symmetrically decoupled feature modulation, enabling adaptive morphological modeling of RS targets. Specifically, the Parallel Interleaved Convolution (PIC) module establishes symmetric computation patterns through mirrored kernel arrangements, effectively reducing computational redundancy while preserving directional completeness through rotational symmetry-enhanced receptive field optimization. Complementing this, the Global Complementary Attention Mechanism (GCAM) introduces bidirectional symmetry in feature recalibration, decoupling channel-wise and spatial-wise adaptations through orthogonal attention pathways that maintain equilibrium in gradient propagation. Extensive experiments on RSOD and NWPU-VHR-10 datasets demonstrate our superior performance, achieving 92.2% and 84.90% mAP, respectively, outperforming state-of-the-art methods including EfficientNet and YOLOv8. With only 12.5 M parameters, the framework achieves symmetrical optimization of accuracy-efficiency trade-offs. Ablation studies confirm that the symmetric interaction between PIC and GCAM enhances detection performance by 2.75%, particularly excelling in scenarios requiring geometric symmetry preservation, such as dense target clusters and extreme scale variations. Cross-domain validation on agricultural pest datasets further verifies its rotational symmetry generalization capability, demonstrating 84.90% accuracy in fine-grained orientation-sensitive detection tasks.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym17101621","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,1]],"date-time":"2025-10-01T07:58:13Z","timestamp":1759305493000},"page":"1621","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A Fast Rotation Detection Network with Parallel Interleaved Convolutional Kernels"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Leilei","family":"Deng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 618307, China"},{"name":"College of Information Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, China"}]},{"given":"Lifeng","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8566-1558","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hua","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 618307, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"A novel nonlocal-aware pyramid and multiscale multitask refinement detector for object detection in remote sensing images","volume":"60","author":"Huang","year":"2022","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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