TY - JOUR T1 - Detecting Vehicles using YOLO from Aerial Images AU - Abdallah, Shighaf AU - Hamdoun, Omar AU - Jafar, Assef JO - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences VL - 15 IS - 21 SP - 3586 EP - 3592 PY - 2020 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-949x DO - jeasci.2020.3586.3592 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2020.3586.3592 KW - Deep learning KW -convolutional neural networks KW -YOLO KW -COWC KW -VEDAI KW -OIRDS AB - Detection of vehicles from aerial images is a challenging subject due to the large image resolution with small targets and variant orientations. Unfortunately, there isn’t any dataset large enough to be suitable for training deep models. Therefore, we recognize COWC, large aerial image dataset to use in vehicle detection. In this project, the third version of popular YOLO is modified to vastly improve its performance on aerial data. We trained on a large amount of aerial images from COWC dataset. The proposed detector was able to achieve mAP = 95% on VEDAI dataset. It outperformed SSD and R-CNN. For the OIRDS dataset, we achieved mAP = 67% without any previous training. ER -