A multi-scale approach to detecting standing dead trees in UAV RGB images based on improved faster R-CNN

• Xiangtao Jiang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiangtao Jiang, Zhenyu Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China

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• Zhenyu Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiangtao Jiang, Zhenyu Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China

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• Siyu Han,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China

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• Hui Yan,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China

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• Bo Zhou,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Hunan Linkeda Information Science and Technology Co.LTD, Changsha, China

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• Jianjun Li

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: forestrybd@csuft.edu.cn

  Affiliation College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3942-7023

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