Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (8): 2437-2447.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.08.07

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Key-point based method for ship detection in remote sensing images

Tao ZHANG, Xiaogang YANG*, Ruitao LU, Xueli XIE, Chuang LIU   

  1. Institute of Missile Engineering, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi'an 710025, China
  • Received:2021-09-07 Online:2022-08-01 Published:2022-08-24
  • Contact: Xiaogang YANG

Abstract:

Problems with current ship target detection method, such as high computational cost of anchor frame traversal; and the rotation invariance of the features extracted from the backbone network is weak and cannot adapt to the ship targets in any direction, resulting in inconsistency. Therefore, a ship target detection method based on key points in remote sensing images is proposed, and the target detection is realized by predicting the ship center point. First, the depth separable convolution is added to reduce the parameter redundancy, and the attention to the ship target is enhanced combined with SimAM nonparametric attention. Second, the orientation-invariant model (OIM) is introduced to generate the orientation-invariant feature map to enhance the adaptability of the network to target rotation. Finally, considering that the ship targets in remote sensing images are densely arranged in any direction, but the center point of the ship target is constant, the idea of directly predicting the center point of the target, and then regressing the offset, target scale and angle is adopted to get rid of the anchor frame traversal mechanism and improve the detection speed. A comparative experiment was conducted on the HRSC2016 and RFUE2021 datasets, and the experimental results fully demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Key words: arbitrary-oriented ship detection, center point estimation, SimAM attention, orientation-invariant model (OIM)

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