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Lightweight algorithm for multi-scale ship detection based on high-resolution SAR images

Lightweight algorithm for multi-scale ship detection based on high-resolution SAR images As ship target detection technology has high application value in military and civil fields, it is significant to research ship detection in SAR images. Aiming at the complex and diverse backgrounds, significant differences in ship sizes, and real-time detection problems in the ship target detection task of SAR remote sensing images, a lightweight ship detection network based on the YOLOx-Tiny model is proposed. Firstly, a multi-scale ship feature extraction module is proposed, composed of a parallel multi-branch structure connected by a standard convolution layer, asymmetric convolution layer, and dilatation convolution layer with different expansion rates in turn. It makes better use of local features and global features and effectively improves the detection accuracy of multi-scale ship targets; Secondly, to ensure detection performance and eliminate background interference, we propose a whole SAR remote sensing image detection strategy based on an adaptive threshold, which effectively suppresses false alarms caused by background and improves detection speed. The experimental results on two different SAR ship datasets, SSDD and HRSID, show that, compared with several advanced methods, the effectiveness and superiority of the method in this paper are verified, and excellent results are shown in the detection of the whole SAR remote-sensing image. It can provide effective theoretical and technical support for ship detection on platforms with limited computing resources and has good application prospects. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Remote Sensing Taylor & Francis

Lightweight algorithm for multi-scale ship detection based on high-resolution SAR images

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Taylor & Francis
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1366-5901
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10.1080/01431161.2023.2182652
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Abstract

As ship target detection technology has high application value in military and civil fields, it is significant to research ship detection in SAR images. Aiming at the complex and diverse backgrounds, significant differences in ship sizes, and real-time detection problems in the ship target detection task of SAR remote sensing images, a lightweight ship detection network based on the YOLOx-Tiny model is proposed. Firstly, a multi-scale ship feature extraction module is proposed, composed of a parallel multi-branch structure connected by a standard convolution layer, asymmetric convolution layer, and dilatation convolution layer with different expansion rates in turn. It makes better use of local features and global features and effectively improves the detection accuracy of multi-scale ship targets; Secondly, to ensure detection performance and eliminate background interference, we propose a whole SAR remote sensing image detection strategy based on an adaptive threshold, which effectively suppresses false alarms caused by background and improves detection speed. The experimental results on two different SAR ship datasets, SSDD and HRSID, show that, compared with several advanced methods, the effectiveness and superiority of the method in this paper are verified, and excellent results are shown in the detection of the whole SAR remote-sensing image. It can provide effective theoretical and technical support for ship detection on platforms with limited computing resources and has good application prospects.

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International Journal of Remote Sensing – Taylor & Francis

Published: Feb 16, 2023

Keywords: extreme learning machine; ship detection; SAR

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