7 November 2024 Pico-Net: a high-precision synthetic aperture radar small ship detection framework based on feature selection and reuse
Fangzhen Liu, Ying Wang
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Abstract

Small ships in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images have small dimensions, making them susceptible to interference from sea waves, coastlines, and clutter between ships. To address the problem of low detection accuracy caused by the small scale of vessels and background noise, this paper proposes a high-precision network (Pico-Net). First, a feature selection backbone network is introduced to extract detailed information on small vessels. The background noise influence is removed through feature denoising convolution, and the feature attention spatial pyramid pool is constructed to highlight the contrast between small vessels and the background. Second, a multi-scale feature reuse dynamic fusion network (MRD-FPN) with bidirectional connections was designed to facilitate the acquisition of rich semantic information. Finally, a new loss function ZIoU is constructed by combining the advantages of CIoU, EIoU, and αIoU to effectively constrain the predicted bounding boxes. On the SAR ship detection dataset and the infrared ship detection dataset, Pico-Net achieved AP5095 of 83.5% and 50.3%, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that Pico-Net exhibits strong noise resistance, effectively combating background interference, and achieving more precise localization of small vessels, significantly reducing false alarms and missed detections.

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Fangzhen Liu and Ying Wang "Pico-Net: a high-precision synthetic aperture radar small ship detection framework based on feature selection and reuse," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 18(4), 046508 (7 November 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.18.046508
Received: 1 July 2024; Accepted: 15 October 2024; Published: 7 November 2024
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KEYWORDS
Synthetic aperture radar

Object detection

Background noise

Feature extraction

Small targets

Convolution

Semantics

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