Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (9): 1903-1910.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-506X.2020.09.04

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Oriented inshore ship detection and classification based on cascade RCNN

Jiachi SUN(), Huanxin ZOU*(), Zhipeng DENG(), Meilin LI(), Xu CAO(), Qian MA()   

  1. College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • Received:2019-09-20 Online:2020-08-26 Published:2020-08-26
  • Contact: Huanxin ZOU E-mail:s.jcsome@gmail.com;hxzou2008@163.com;dzp_whu@163.com;summit_mll@qq.com;1135459767@qq.com;2233809618@qq.com

Abstract:

Automatic inshore ship recognition, including target localization and type classification, is an important and challenging problem. However, arbitrarily rotated ships are always moored inshore densely. This makes it very difficult to recognize and locate ship targets. To resolve this problem, a multiclass oriented ship localization and recognition framework is proposed based on a cascade region convolutional neural network (RCNN) and feature designed manually. Firstly, cascade RCNN is adopted to localize and classify the positive regions of ships-a set of bounding boxes (BBox). Secondly, a novel procedure which transforms a bounding box to a rotated bounding box is designed and applied to each BBox. Finally, non-maximum suppression (NMS) is adopted to remove the redundant rotated BBoxes (RBoxes). Extensive experimental results conducted on the dataset collected from Google Earth demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, compared to the other approaches.

Key words: inshore ship detection, rotated bounding box annotation, ship classification, Canny edge detection, Hough line detection

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