Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (12): 3631-3640.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.12.06

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Ship detection of optical remote sensing images based on aware vectors

Chaofan PAN, Runsheng LI*, Yan XU, Qing HU, Chaoyang NIU, Wei LIU   

  1. School of Data and Target Engineering, University of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou 450001, China
  • Received:2021-07-20 Online:2022-11-14 Published:2022-11-24
  • Contact: Runsheng LI

Abstract:

To solve the problem of severe interference and high false positive rate in ship detection from remote sensing images, an enhanced method based on the box boundary-aware vectors (BBAVectors) detection network is proposed.Firstly, a supervised attention module is added to the feature fusion network to enhance the relevant information within the target region and reduce the interference of irrelevant background information. Then a self-supervised loss function is proposed based on the geometric relations among the boundary vectors to guarantee the coupling relation between vectors and prevent the irregular shape of the bounding boxes caused by vectors' independence. Experimental results in the L2 level detection task on the HRSC2016 dataset show that the mean average precision of the detection results for the proposed model gets improved by 6.91% compared with the original network. The proposed model can effectively suppress the interference of background noise and reduce the false alarm rates in near-shore ship detection, which demonstrates its effectiveness.

Key words: optical remote sensing images, ship targets detection, box boundary-aware vectors (BBAVectors), supervised, attention module

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