A novel anchor-free detector using global context-guide feature balance pyramid and united attention for SAR ship detection

L Bai, C Yao, Z Ye, D Xue, X Lin… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detectors based on convolutional neural networks
(CNNs) needed preset anchor boxes to object classification and bounding box coordinate …

An oriented SAR ship detector with mixed convolution channel attention module and geometric nonmaximum suppression

C Li, H Lang - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Benefiting from deep learning, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection based on
convolutional neural network (CNN) has developed rapidly and corresponding performance …

A lightweight SAR ship detector using end-to-end image preprocessing network and channel feature guided spatial pyramid pooling

C Chen, Y Zhang, R Hu, Y Yu - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection, deep-learning-based
methods have made significant strides in terms of detection accuracy and speed. However …

ATSD: Anchor-Free Two-Stage Ship Detection Based on Feature Enhancement in SAR Images

C Yao, P Xie, L Zhang, Y Fang - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Syntheticap erture radar (SAR) ship detection in harbors is challenging due to the similar
backscattering of ship targets to surrounding background interference. Prevalent two-stage …

Anchor-free convolutional network with dense attention feature aggregation for ship detection in SAR images

F Gao, Y He, J Wang, A Hussain, H Zhou - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, with the improvement of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging resolution, it
is urgent to develop methods with higher accuracy and faster speed for ship detection in …

Efficient encoder-decoder network with estimated direction for SAR ship detection

Y Niu, Y Li, J Huang, Y Chen - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image ship detection has important applications in marine
surveillance. There are two limitations when applying advanced detection methods naively …

SPANet: a self-balancing position attention network for anchor-free SAR ship detection

H Chang, X Fu, J Lu, K Guo, J Dong… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of ships have complex background interference,
multi-scale targets, and irregular distribution characteristics. However, existing mainstream …

ESarDet: an efficient SAR ship detection method based on context information and large effective receptive field

Y Zhang, C Chen, R Hu, Y Yu - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ship detection using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been extensively utilized in both the
military and civilian fields. On account of complex backgrounds, large scale variations, small …

Vs-lsdet: A multiscale ship detector for spaceborne sar images based on visual saliency and lightweight cnn

H Yu, S Yang, S Zhou, Y Sun - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep learning-based methods for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection
have made remarkable advancements. However, most existing methods primarily focus on …

An improved FCOS method for ship detection in SAR images

S Yang, W An, S Li, G Wei, B Zou - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
More convolutional neural network (CNN) methods are widely utilized for ship detection in
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Nevertheless, there are still some problems that …