Ship Detection and Feature Visualization Analysis Based on Lightweight CNN in VH and VV Polarization Images
Autor: | Jie Yang, Weidong Sun, Pingxiang Li, Jinqi Zhao, Lingli Zhao, Lei Shi, Xiaomeng Geng |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
Synthetic aperture radar
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Computer science ship detection Science 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences Convolutional neural network Classifier (linguistics) Computer vision Segmentation 021101 geological & geomatics engineering 0105 earth and related environmental sciences business.industry Filter (signal processing) Visualization Feature (computer vision) General Earth and Planetary Sciences Sentinel-1 Artificial intelligence F1 score business CNN SAR |
Zdroj: | Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 1184, p 1184 (2021) Remote Sensing Volume 13 Issue 6 Pages: 1184 |
ISSN: | 2072-4292 |
Popis: | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a significant application in maritime monitoring, which can provide SAR data throughout the day and in all weather conditions. With the development of artificial intelligence and big data technologies, the data-driven convolutional neural network (CNN) has become widely used in ship detection. However, the accuracy, feature visualization, and analysis of ship detection need to be improved further, when the CNN method is used. In this letter, we propose a two-stage ship detection for land-contained sea area without a traditional sea-land segmentation process. First, to decrease the possibly existing false alarms from the island, an island filter is used as the first step, and then threshold segmentation is used to quickly perform candidate detection. Second, a two-layer lightweight CNN model-based classifier is built to separate false alarms from the ship object. Finally, we discuss the CNN interpretation and visualize in detail when the ship is predicted in vertical–horizontal (VH) and vertical–vertical (VV) polarization. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can reach an accuracy of 99.4% and an F1 score of 0.99 based on the Sentinel-1 images for a ship with a size of less than 32 × 32. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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