A fast progressive ship detection method for very large full-scene SAR images

H Jia, X Pu, Q Liu, H Wang, F Xu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has emerged as a vital tool for ship monitoring due to its all-
weather, all-day, high-resolution imaging capabilities. In practical operations, the wide …

Enhanced feature extraction for ship detection from multi-resolution and multi-scene synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images

F Gao, W Shi, J Wang, E Yang, H Zhou - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Independent of daylight and weather conditions, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images
have been widely used for ship monitoring. The traditional methods for SAR ship detection …

A multi-scale feature pyramid SAR ship detection network with robust background interference

S Liu, P Chen, Y Zhang - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection is widely used in cutting-edge applications
such as environmental protection, traffic monitoring, search, and rescue. Lightweight …

Regional prediction-aware network with cross-scale self-attention for ship detection in SAR images

L Zhang, Y Liu, Y Huang, L Qu - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning algorithms have been widely used in ship detection with synthetic aperture
radar (SAR). However, the complex background, clutter noise, and large span of ship sizes …

A fast and lightweight detection network for multi-scale SAR ship detection under complex backgrounds

J Yu, G Zhou, S Zhou, M Qin - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
It is very difficult to detect multi-scale synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ships, especially under
complex backgrounds. Traditional constant false alarm rate methods are cumbersome in …

DSDet: A lightweight densely connected sparsely activated detector for ship target detection in high-resolution SAR images

K Sun, Y Liang, X Ma, Y Huai, M Xing - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Traditional constant false alarm rate (CFAR) based ship target detection methods do not
work well in complex conditions, such as multi-scale situations or inshore ship detection …

A ship detection method via redesigned FCOS in large-scale SAR images

M Zhu, G Hu, H Zhou, S Wang, Z Feng, S Yue - Remote sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ship detection in large-scale synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has achieved
breakthroughs as a result of the improvement of SAR imaging technology. However, there …

Multiscale and dense ship detection in SAR images based on key-point estimation and attention mechanism

X Ma, S Hou, Y Wang, J Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ship target detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is essential for many
applications in marine monitoring and port security. Though considerable developments …

FastPFM: a multi-scale ship detection algorithm for complex scenes based on SAR images

W Wang, D Han, C Chen, Z Wu - Connection Science, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is renowned for its all-weather capabilities, exceptional
penetration, and high-resolution imaging, making SAR-based ship detection crucial for …

A robust one-stage detector for multiscale ship detection with complex background in massive SAR images

X Yang, X Zhang, N Wang, X Gao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and deep learning, SAR
ship detection based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has been extensively …