Abstract:Due to multiple factors such as geometric distortion, sensor noise, and atmospheric scattering, remote sensing images suffer from problems such as blurred details, radiation distortion, and spatial misalignment, resulting in a decrease in overall quality. If directly applied, it will lead to a decline in the detection performance of small targets. A research on remote sensing image small object detection method integrating attention mechanism and convolutional neural network is proposed. Enhance the quality of remote sensing images through geometric correction, noise suppression, and quality enhancement steps. Integrating attention mechanism and convolutional neural network to construct a small object detection model, the enhanced remote sensing image is input into the trained small object detection model to obtain the classification results (category information) and bounding box regression results (position information) of small objects, thereby achieving effective detection of small objects in remote sensing images. The experimental results show that the minimum false detection rate of the small object detection model in the design method reaches 0.25%; The maximum peak signal-to-noise ratio of remote sensing images reached 63dB, and the minimum error of remote sensing image fusion feature extraction reached 0.2%. The results of small target detection are highly consistent with the actual results.