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Ship detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is fundamentally challenged by inherent coherent speckle noise, complex coastal clutter, and the prevalence of small-scale targets. Conventional detectors, primarily designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Fenghao Song , Shaojing Yang , Xi Zhou

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data enables large-scale surveillance of maritime vessels. However, near-real-time monitoring is currently constrained by the need to downlink all raw data, perform image focusing, and subsequently analyze it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Fabian Kresse , Georgios Pilikos , Mario Azcueta , Nicolas Floury

Ship detection using high-resolution remote sensing images is an important task, which contribute to sea surface regulation. The complex background and special visual angle make ship detection relies in high quality datasets to a certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Kaiyan Chen , Ming Wu , Jiaming Liu , Chuang Zhang

Detecting ships in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is challenging due to strong speckle noise, complex surroundings, and varying scales. This paper proposes MLDet, a multitask learning framework for SAR ship detection, consisting of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Ming Zhao , Xin Zhang , André Kaup

Deep learning methods have made significant progress in ship detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The pretraining technique is usually adopted to support deep neural networks-based SAR ship detectors due to the scarce labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Wei Bao , Meiyu Huang , Yaqin Zhang , Yao Xu , Xuejiao Liu , Xueshuang Xiang

The advancement of multi-channel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system is considered as an upgraded technology for surveillance activities. SAR sensors onboard provide data for coastal ocean surveillance and a view of the oceanic surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Surya Prakash Tiwari , Sudhir Kumar Chaturvedi , Subhrangshu Adhikary , Saikat Banerjee , Sourav Basu

For an autonomous surface vessel (ASV) to dock, it must track other vessels close to the docking area. Kayaks present a particular challenge due to their proximity to the dock and relatively small size. Maritime target tracking has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Nicholas Dalhaug , Annette Stahl , Rudolf Mester , Edmund Førland Brekke

The classification of large-scale high-resolution SAR land cover images acquired by satellites is a challenging task, facing several difficulties such as semantic annotation with expertise, changing data characteristics due to varying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Zhongling Huang , Corneliu Octavian Dumitru , Zongxu Pan , Bin Lei , Mihai Datcu

Advancements in Sonar image capture have enabled researchers to apply sophisticated object identification algorithms in order to locate targets of interest in images such as mines. Despite progress in this field, modern sonar automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-05 John McKay , Raghu Raj , Vishal Monga , Jason Isaacs

The progress in maritime obstacle detection is hindered by the lack of a diverse dataset that adequately captures the complexity of general maritime environments. We present the first maritime panoptic obstacle detection benchmark LaRS,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Lojze Žust , Janez Perš , Matej Kristan

Object detection in satellite-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery holds immense potential in tasks such as urban monitoring and disaster response. However, the inherent complexities of SAR data and the scarcity of annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yasin Almalioglu , Andrzej Kucik , Geoffrey French , Dafni Antotsiou , Alexander Adam , Cedric Archambeau

This paper studies a practically meaningful ship detection problem from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images by the neural network. We broadly extract different types of SAR image features and raise the intriguing question that whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yuwen Deng , Donghai Guan , Yanyu Chen , Weiwei Yuan , Jiemin Ji , Mingqiang Wei

DL based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection has tremendous advantages in numerous areas. However, it still faces some problems, such as the lack of prior knowledge, which seriously affects detection accuracy. In order to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Han Ke , Xiao Ke , Ye Yan , Rui Liu , Jinpeng Yang , Tianwen Zhang , Xu Zhan , Xiaowo Xu

Anomaly detection is a key research challenge in computer vision and machine learning with applications in many fields from quality control to radar imaging. In radar imaging, specifically synthetic aperture radar (SAR), anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Lucian Chauvin , Somil Gupta , Angelina Ibarra , Joshua Peeples

Target detection is the front-end stage in any automatic target recognition system for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery (SAR-ATR). The efficacy of the detector directly impacts the succeeding stages in the SAR-ATR processing chain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-16 Khalid El-Darymli , Peter McGuire , Desmond Power , Cecilia Moloney

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) plays a critical role in maritime surveillance, yet deep learning for SAR analysis is limited by the lack of pixel-level annotations. This paper explores how general-purpose vision foundation models can enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Islam Mansour , Francescopaolo Sica , Michael Schmitt

Detection of oil spills from satellite images is essential for both environmental surveillance and maritime safety. Traditional threshold-based methods frequently encounter performance degradation due to very high false alarm rates caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pavan Kumar Yata , Pediredla Pradeep , Goli Himanish , Swathi M

Ship detection has been an active and vital topic in the field of remote sensing for a decade, but it is still a challenging problem due to the large scale variations, the high aspect ratios, the intensive arrangement, and the background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Lingyi Liu , Yunpeng Bai , Ying Li

Active learning improves the performance of machine learning methods by judiciously selecting a limited number of unlabeled data points to query for labels, with the aim of maximally improving the underlying classifier's performance. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 James Chapman , Bohan Chen , Zheng Tan , Jeff Calder , Kevin Miller , Andrea L. Bertozzi

Target identification of ship-radiated noise is a crucial area in underwater target recognition. However, there is currently a lack of multi-target ship datasets that accurately represent real-world underwater acoustic conditions. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Xiaoyang Du , Feng Hong