LS-MambaNet: Integrating Large Strip Convolution and Mamba Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection

Target detection plays a crucial role in the intelligent interpretation of remote sensing images and has a wide range of potential applications. However, in the presence of targets with high aspect ratios and significant scale variations in remotely sensed images, existing methods prefer CNN or transformer architectures but suffer from the limitations of overly fixed receptive fields or excessive computational complexity. Recently, Mamba-based methods have become hot in the field of target detection and show significant potential in capturing remote dependencies with linear complexity but lack in-depth customization for remote sensing targets. To address the above challenges, we propose a new target detection framework for complex remote sensing images, LS-MambaNet. Specifically, firstly, a group fusion strategy is combined with the introduction of large-band convolution to adaptively adjust the receptive domains of the features, which enhances the spatial context information extraction for objects with high aspect ratios. In addition, a Multi-Granularity Spatial Mamba Block is proposed, and this employs a multi-granularity scanning strategy to reduce the computational cost and feature redundancy on different scanning paths and is able to efficiently model the global contextual information of the target. Experimental results show that LS-MambaNet outperforms baselines on DOTA1.0 and HRSC2016 datasets. In particular, LS-MambaNet significantly improves the inference speed and achieves a higher FPS while maintaining state-of-the-art detection accuracy.