Multiscale Task-Decoupled Oriented SAR Ship Detection Network Based on Size-Aware Balanced Strategy

Current synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship datasets exhibit a notable disparity in the distribution of large, medium, and small ship targets. This imbalance makes it difficult for a relatively small number of large and medium-sized ships to be effectively trained, resulting in many false alarms. Th...

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Main Authors: Shun He, Ruirui Yuan, Zhiwei Yang, Jiaxue Liu
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語言:英语
出版: MDPI AG 2025-06-01
叢編:Remote Sensing
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總結:Current synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship datasets exhibit a notable disparity in the distribution of large, medium, and small ship targets. This imbalance makes it difficult for a relatively small number of large and medium-sized ships to be effectively trained, resulting in many false alarms. Therefore, to address the issues of scale diversity, intra-class imbalance in ship data, and the feature conflict problem associated with traditional coupled detection heads, we propose an SAR image multiscale task-decoupled oriented ship target detector based on a size-aware balanced strategy. First, the multiscale target features are extracted using the multikernel heterogeneous perception module (MKHP). Meanwhile, the triple-attention module is introduced to establish the remote channel dependence to alleviate the issue of small target feature annihilation, which can effectively enhance the feature characterization ability of the model. Second, given the differences in the demand for feature information between the detection and classification tasks, a channel attention-based task decoupling dual-head (CAT2D) detector head structure is introduced to address the inherent conflict between classification and localization tasks. Finally, a new size-aware balanced (SAB) loss strategy is proposed to guide the network in focusing on the scarce targets in training to alleviate the intra-class imbalance problem during the training process. The ablation experiments on SSDD+ reflect the contribution of each component, and the results of the comparison experiments on the RSDD-SAR and HRSID datasets show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to other state-of-the-art detection models. Furthermore, our approach exhibits superior detection coverage for both offshore and inshore scenarios for ship detection tasks.
ISSN:2072-4292