Instance segmentation of small objects in grainy drone imagery

My task is instance segmentation of birds using drone imagery. I am new to computer vision, so please understand that what I am writing is simply my understanding as of now and I could very well be wrong.

I am using Detectron2 (MaskRCNN). Since drone orthophotos are large, I am tiling them for training. For similar reasons, I use SAHI for prediction where I tile the input image into slices just as large as used for training (taking into account …

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