Lightweight attention-based SAR ship detector

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images have been widely applied in military reconnaissance and traffic supervision, owing to their all-weather and all-day abilities. With excellent learning performance, convolutional neural networks are employed in the SAR ship detection algorithms. Ho...

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Main Authors: YU Nanjing, FENG Daquan, ZHU Ying, ZHANG Hengjia, LU Ping
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Published: China InfoCom Media Group 2024-12-01
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Online Access:http://www.wlwxb.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.2096-3750.2024.00407/
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FENG Daquan
ZHU Ying
ZHANG Hengjia
LU Ping
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FENG Daquan
ZHU Ying
ZHANG Hengjia
LU Ping
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description Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images have been widely applied in military reconnaissance and traffic supervision, owing to their all-weather and all-day abilities. With excellent learning performance, convolutional neural networks are employed in the SAR ship detection algorithms. However, it is difficult to extract features. In practical applications, computing resources and memory space are limited, and high inference speed is required. Therefore, a lightweight attention-based ship detector (LASD) was proposed. A novel linear hybrid attention module was designed which extracted potential ship features from deep-level space by using global channel attention and local spatial attention. A spatial pyramid pooling module based on cross-stage partial connections optimized the quality of multi-scale feature fusion, which replaced the parallel max-pooling group with large kernels with the serial max-poolings with small kernels to improve the inference speed. A novel feature fusion scheme via the local channel attention was suggested which widened the gap between the objects and background noise using local attention during the feature fusion. The results on the public datasets SSDD and LS-SSDD-v1.0 show that LASD achieves the balance of detection precision and inference speed, and is more competitive than the other advanced algorithms.
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spelling doaj-art-d974ffe3c8194bc8a1c86db4798b7de12025-01-25T19:00:24ZzhoChina InfoCom Media Group物联网学报2096-37502024-12-01815616679606163Lightweight attention-based SAR ship detectorYU NanjingFENG DaquanZHU YingZHANG HengjiaLU PingSynthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images have been widely applied in military reconnaissance and traffic supervision, owing to their all-weather and all-day abilities. With excellent learning performance, convolutional neural networks are employed in the SAR ship detection algorithms. However, it is difficult to extract features. In practical applications, computing resources and memory space are limited, and high inference speed is required. Therefore, a lightweight attention-based ship detector (LASD) was proposed. A novel linear hybrid attention module was designed which extracted potential ship features from deep-level space by using global channel attention and local spatial attention. A spatial pyramid pooling module based on cross-stage partial connections optimized the quality of multi-scale feature fusion, which replaced the parallel max-pooling group with large kernels with the serial max-poolings with small kernels to improve the inference speed. A novel feature fusion scheme via the local channel attention was suggested which widened the gap between the objects and background noise using local attention during the feature fusion. The results on the public datasets SSDD and LS-SSDD-v1.0 show that LASD achieves the balance of detection precision and inference speed, and is more competitive than the other advanced algorithms.http://www.wlwxb.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.2096-3750.2024.00407/SARship detectionconvolutional neural networkattention mechanismmulti-scale feature fusion
spellingShingle YU Nanjing
FENG Daquan
ZHU Ying
ZHANG Hengjia
LU Ping
Lightweight attention-based SAR ship detector
物联网学报
SAR
ship detection
convolutional neural network
attention mechanism
multi-scale feature fusion
title Lightweight attention-based SAR ship detector
title_full Lightweight attention-based SAR ship detector
title_fullStr Lightweight attention-based SAR ship detector
title_full_unstemmed Lightweight attention-based SAR ship detector
title_short Lightweight attention-based SAR ship detector
title_sort lightweight attention based sar ship detector
topic SAR
ship detection
convolutional neural network
attention mechanism
multi-scale feature fusion
url http://www.wlwxb.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.2096-3750.2024.00407/
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