Ship detection for high resolution optical imagery with adaptive target filter

Hongbin Ju

doi:10.1117/12.2202960

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8 October 2015 Ship detection for high resolution optical imagery with adaptive target filter

Hongbin Ju

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Proceedings Volume 9675, AOPC 2015: Image Processing and Analysis; 967530 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2202960
Event: Applied Optics and Photonics China (AOPC2015), 2015, Beijing, China

Abstract

Ship detection is important due to both its civil and military use. In this paper, we propose a novel ship detection method, Adaptive Target Filter (ATF), for high resolution optical imagery. The proposed framework can be grouped into two stages, where in the first stage, a test image is densely divided into different detection windows and each window is transformed to a feature vector in its feature space. The Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) is accumulated as a basic feature descriptor. In the second stage, the proposed ATF highlights all the ship regions and suppresses the undesired backgrounds adaptively. Each detection window is assigned a score, which represents the degree of the window belonging to a certain ship category. The ATF can be adaptively obtained by the weighted Logistic Regression (WLR) according to the distribution of backgrounds and targets of the input image. The main innovation of our method is that we only need to collect positive training samples to build the filter, while the negative training samples are adaptively generated by the input image. This is different to other classification method such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Logistic Regression (LR), which need to collect both positive and negative training samples. The experimental result on 1-m high resolution optical images shows the proposed method achieves a desired ship detection performance with higher quality and robustness than other methods, e.g., SVM and LR.

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Hongbin Ju "Ship detection for high resolution optical imagery with adaptive target filter", Proc. SPIE 9675, AOPC 2015: Image Processing and Analysis, 967530 (8 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2202960

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