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The problem of overlapping occlusion in target recognition has been a difficult research problem, and the situation of mutual occlusion of ship targets in narrow waters still exists. In this paper, an improved mosaic data enhancement method…
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Waterline usually plays as an important visual cue for maritime applications. However, the visual complexity of inland waterline presents a significant challenge for the development of highly efficient computer vision algorithms tailored…
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