OD-YOLOv8: A Lightweight and Enhanced New Algorithm for Ship Detection
Zhuowei Wang1,*, Dezhi Han1, Bing Han2, Zhongdai Wu2
Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.49, pp. 377-399, 2025, DOI:10.32604/csse.2025.059634
- 09 April 2025
Abstract Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has become one of the most effective tools in ship detection. However, due to significant background interference, small targets, and challenges related to target scattering intensity in SAR images, current ship target detection faces serious issues of missed detections and false positives, and the network structures are overly complex. To address this issue, this paper proposes a lightweight model based on YOLOv8, named OD-YOLOv8. Firstly, we adopt a simplified neural network architecture, VanillaNet, to replace the backbone network, significantly reducing the number of parameters and computational complexity while ensuring accuracy. Secondly,… More >