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 >

Guoqing Zhou, Liang Huang, Qiao Sun^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.2, pp. 1985-2007, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040902 - 29 November 2023

Abstract The remote sensing ships’ fine-grained classification technology makes it possible to identify certain ship types in remote sensing images, and it has broad application prospects in civil and military fields. However, the current model does not examine the properties of ship targets in remote sensing images with mixed multi-granularity features and a complicated backdrop. There is still an opportunity for future enhancement of the classification impact. To solve the challenges brought by the above characteristics, this paper proposes a Metaformer and Residual fusion network based on Visual Attention Network (VAN-MR) for fine-grained classification tasks. For… More >

Zhilin Zhang¹, Ting Zhang¹, Zhaoying Liu^1,*, Peijie Zhang¹, Shanshan Tu¹, Yujian Li², Muhammad Waqas³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1527-1539, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029297 - 18 May 2022

Abstract The fine-grained ship image recognition task aims to identify various classes of ships. However, small inter-class, large intra-class differences between ships, and lacking of training samples are the reasons that make the task difficult. Therefore, to enhance the accuracy of the fine-grained ship image recognition, we design a fine-grained ship image recognition network based on bilinear convolutional neural network (BCNN) with Inception and additive margin Softmax (AM-Softmax). This network improves the BCNN in two aspects. Firstly, by introducing Inception branches to the BCNN network, it is helpful to enhance the ability of extracting comprehensive features… More >