Conghao Niu^1,*, Dezhi Han¹, Bing Han², Zhongdai Wu²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.6, pp. 1723-1748, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2024.056736 - 22 November 2024

Abstract The high coverage and all-weather capabilities of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image ship detection make it a widely accepted method for maritime ship positioning and identification. However, SAR ship detection faces challenges such as indistinct ship contours, low resolution, multi-scale features, noise, and complex background interference. This paper proposes a lightweight YOLOv8 model for small object detection in SAR ship images, incorporating key structures to enhance performance. The YOLOv8 backbone is replaced by the Slim Backbone (SB), and the Delete Medium-sized Detection Head (DMDH) structure is eliminated to concentrate on shallow features. Dynamically adjusting the… More >

Huafeng Chen¹, Junxing Xue², Hanyun Wen², Yurong Hu¹, Yudong Zhang^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.1, pp. 301-320, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.028738 - 22 September 2023

Abstract Optical image-based ship detection can ensure the safety of ships and promote the orderly management of ships in offshore waters. Current deep learning researches on optical image-based ship detection mainly focus on improving one-stage detectors for real-time ship detection but sacrifices the accuracy of detection. To solve this problem, we present a hybrid ship detection framework which is named EfficientShip in this paper. The core parts of the EfficientShip are DLA-backboned object location (DBOL) and CascadeRCNN-guided object classification (CROC). The DBOL is responsible for finding potential ship objects, and the CROC is used to categorize More >

Yujun Zhang^*, Dezhi Han, Peng Chen

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 2657-2675, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.042311 - 29 November 2023

Abstract Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image target detection has widespread applications in both military and civil domains. However, SAR images pose challenges due to strong scattering, indistinct edge contours, multi-scale representation, sparsity, and severe background interference, which make the existing target detection methods in low accuracy. To address this issue, this paper proposes a multi-scale fusion framework (Swin-PAFF) for SAR target detection that utilizes the global context perception capability of the Transformer and the multi-layer feature fusion learning ability of the feature pyramid structure (FPN). Firstly, to tackle the issue of inadequate perceptual image context information… More >

Wei Wu¹, Xiulai Li², Zhuhua Hu¹, Xiaozhang Liu^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.1, pp. 489-498, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.039929 - 08 June 2023

Abstract In this paper, an advanced YOLOv7 model is proposed to tackle the challenges associated with ship detection and recognition tasks, such as the irregular shapes and varying sizes of ships. The improved model replaces the fixed anchor boxes utilized in conventional YOLOv7 models with a set of more suitable anchor boxes specifically designed based on the size distribution of ships in the dataset. This paper also introduces a novel multi-scale feature fusion module, which comprises Path Aggregation Network (PAN) modules, enabling the efficient capture of ship features across different scales. Furthermore, data preprocessing is enhanced More >

Kyamelia Roy¹, Sheli Sinha Chaudhuri¹, Sayan Pramanik², Soumen Banerjee^2,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.1, pp. 647-662, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.024997 - 01 June 2022

Abstract In recent years, computer vision finds wide applications in maritime surveillance with its sophisticated algorithms and advanced architecture. Automatic ship detection with computer vision techniques provide an efficient means to monitor as well as track ships in water bodies. Waterways being an important medium of transport require continuous monitoring for protection of national security. The remote sensing satellite images of ships in harbours and water bodies are the image data that aid the neural network models to localize ships and to facilitate early identification of possible threats at sea. This paper proposes a deep learning… More >

Yugang Li^{1, 2, *}, Yongbin Wang¹, Zhe Chen², Yuting Zhu³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.3, pp. 1575-1589, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.07451 - 30 April 2020

Abstract Understanding an image goes beyond recognizing and locating the objects in it, the relationships between objects also very important in image understanding. Most previous methods have focused on recognizing local predictions of the relationships. But real-world image relationships often determined by the surrounding objects and other contextual information. In this work, we employ this insight to propose a novel framework to deal with the problem of visual relationship detection. The core of the framework is a relationship inference network, which is a recurrent structure designed for combining the global contextual information of the object to More >