Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection Framework in Optical Remote-Sensing Images

作者：Liu, Wenchao; Ma, Long; Chen, He^*

来源：IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2018, 15(6): 937-941.

DOI：10.1109/LGRS.2018.2813094

• Bounding box
• convolutional neural network
• optical remote-sensing image
• orientation angle information
• ship detection

Ship detection is a challenging problem in complex optical remote-sensing images. In this letter, an effective ship detection framework in remote-sensing images based on the convolutional neural network is proposed. The framework is designed to predict bounding box of ship with orientation angle information. Note that the angle information which is added to bounding box regression makes bounding box accurately fit into the ship region. In order to make the model adaptable to the detection of multiscale ship targets, especially small-sized ships, we design the network with feature maps from the layers of different depths. The whole detection pipeline is a single network and achieves real-time detection for a 704 x 704 image with the use of Titan X GPU acceleration. Through experiments, we validate the effectiveness, robustness, and accuracy of the proposed ship detection framework in complex remote-sensing scenes.

• 出版日期2018-6
• 单位郑州大学; 北京理工大学