Title
Ship Detection in SAR Imagery via Variational Bayesian Inference
Abstract
In this letter, we propose a novel ship detection method in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery via variational Bayesian inference. First, we establish the ship detection probabilistic model which decomposes the SAR image as the sum of a sparse component associated with ships and a sea clutter component. Then, we introduce hierarchical priors of the latent variables in the model and use variational Bayesian inference to estimate the posterior distributions of the latent variables. The proposed method is an automatic iterative process without any sliding window. Experimental results accomplished over synthetic data and a RADARSAT-2 SAR image demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve state-of-the-art ship detection performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/LGRS.2015.2510378
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ship detection,synthetic aperture radar (SAR),variational Bayesian inference
Bayesian inference,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Synthetic data,Artificial intelligence,Computer vision,Sliding window protocol,Pattern recognition,Clutter,Inverse synthetic aperture radar,Statistical model,Prior probability,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
1545-598X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.48
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shengli Song1375.63
Bin Xu213323.23
zenghui li3292.35
Jian Yang448364.80