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The detection and prevention of illegal fishing is critical to maintaining a healthy and functional ecosystem. Recent research on ship detection in satellite imagery has focused exclusively on performance improvements, disregarding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Arthur Van Meerbeeck , Jordy Van Landeghem , Ruben Cartuyvels , Marie-Francine Moens

We propose a sequential nonparametric test for detecting a change in distribution, based on windowed Kolmogorov--Smirnov statistics. The approach is simple, robust, highly computationally efficient, easy to calibrate, and requires no…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-26 Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla , Alex Athey , Alex Reinhart , James G. Scott

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has a pivotal role as a remote imaging method. Obtained by means of coherent illumination, SAR images are contaminated with speckle noise. The statistical modeling of such contamination is well described…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-11 Renato J. Cintra , Abraão D. C. Nascimento , Alejandro C. Frery

We present a novel ship wake simulation system for generating S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, and demonstrate the use of such imagery for the classification of ships based on their wake signatures via a deep learning approach.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Kamirul Kamirul , Odysseas Pappas , Igor G. Rizaev , Alin Achim

Huge imbalance of different scenes' sample numbers seriously reduces Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection accuracy. Thus, to solve this problem, this letter proposes a Balance Scene Learning Mechanism (BSLM) for offshore and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Tianwen Zhang , Xiaoling Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Jianguo Wang , Jianwei Li , Hao Su , Yue Zhou

The matched filter (MF) is one of the most popular and reliable techniques to the detect signals of known structure and amplitude smaller than the level of the contaminating noise. Under the assumption of stationary Gaussian noise, MF…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Roberto Vio , Clara Verges , Paola Andreani

The problem of radar detection in compound Gaussian clutter when a radar signature is not completely known has not been considered yet and is addressed in this paper. We proposed a robust technique to detect, based on the generalized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-10 Mai P. T. Nguyen , I. Song

A spectrogram is a useful way of using short-time discrete Fourier transforms to visualise surface height measurements taken of ship wakes in real world conditions. For a steadily moving ship that leaves behind small-amplitude waves, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Ravindra Pethiyagoda , Scott W. McCue , Timothy J. Moroney

We present a novel analytical framework to characterize the distribution of the conditional receiver operating characteristic (ROC) in radar systems operating within a realization of a Poisson field of interferers and clutters. While…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Gourab Ghatak

Target detection is a fundamental task in radar sensing, serving as the precursor to any further processing for various applications. Numerous detection algorithms have been proposed. Classical methods based on signal processing, e.g., the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Luca Jiang-Tao Yu , Chenshu Wu

There is a growing need to quickly and accurately identify anomalous behavior in ships. This paper applies a variation of the Density Based Spatial Clustering Among Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm to identify such anomalous behavior given a ship's…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-09 Carsten Botts

In this paper, we propose an adaptive matched detector of a signal corrupted by a non-Gaussian noise with an inverse gamma texture. The detector is formed using a set of secondary data measurements, and is analytically shown to have a…

Applications · Statistics 2017-05-15 Shiwen Lei , Andreas Jakobsson , Zhiqin Zhao

Frequency agile radar (FAR) is known to have excellent electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) performance and the potential to realize spectrum sharing in dense electromagnetic environments. Many compressed sensing (CS) based algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Tianyao Huang , Yimin Liu , Xingyu Xu , Yonina C. Eldar , Xiqin Wang

Recently a Bayesian methodology has been introduced, enabling the construction of sliding window detectors with the constant false alarm rate property. The approach introduces a Bayesian predictive inference approach, where under the…

Applications · Statistics 2018-12-27 Graham V. Weinberg

Maritime surveillance is not only necessary for every country, such as in maritime safeguarding and fishing controls, but also plays an essential role in international fields, such as in rescue support and illegal immigration control. Most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Yulin Huang , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang

Since Kelly's pioneering work on GLRT-based adaptive detection, many solutions have been proposed to enhance either selectivity or robustness of radar detectors to mismatched signals. In this paper such a problem is addressed in a different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Angelo Coluccia , Alessio Fascista , Giuseppe Ricci

Future radar systems are expected to use waveforms of a high bandwidth, where the main advantage is an improved range resolution. In this paper, a technique to design robust wideband waveforms for a Multiple-Input-Single-Output system is…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-17 Ashkan Panahi , Marie Ström , Mats Viberg

This paper deals with the problem of adaptive multidimensional/multichannel signal detection in homogeneous Gaussian disturbance with unknown covariance matrix and structured (unknown) deterministic interference. The aforementioned problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Domenico Ciuonzo , Antonio De Maio , Danilo Orlando

Radar target detection in the presence of a mixture of non-Gaussian clutter and white thermal noise is a challenging problem. This paper proposes a Rectified Flow Matching-based method for radar detection, termed D-RFM. Unlike existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 P. Meena , Y. A. Rouzoumka , J. Pinsolle , C. Ren , M. N. El Korso , J. -P. Ovarlez

Recent advancements in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection using deep learning have significantly improved accuracy and speed, yet effectively detecting small objects in complex backgrounds with fewer parameters remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hongyu Chen , Chengcheng Chen , Fei Wang , Yuhu Shi , Weiming Zeng