  In oriented object detection, current representations of oriented bounding
boxes (OBBs) often suffer from boundary discontinuity problem. Methods of
designing continuous regression losses do not essentially solve this problem.
Although Gaussian bounding box (GBB) representation avoids this problem,
directly regressing GBB is susceptible to numerical instability. We propose
linear GBB (LGBB), a novel OBB representation. By linearly transforming the
elements of GBB, LGBB avoids the boundary discontinuity problem and has high
numerical stability. In addition, existing convolution-based rotation-sensitive
feature extraction methods only have local receptive fields, resulting in slow
feature aggregation. We propose ring-shaped rotated convolution (RRC), which
adaptively rotates feature maps to arbitrary orientations to extract
rotation-sensitive features under a ring-shaped receptive field, rapidly
aggregating features and contextual information. Experimental results
demonstrate that LGBB and RRC achieve state-of-the-art performance.
Furthermore, integrating LGBB and RRC into various models effectively improves
detection accuracy.
