Title
Locally Oriented Scene Complexity Analysis Real-Time Ocean Ship Detection from Optical Remote Sensing Images.
Abstract
Due to strong ocean waves, broken clouds, and extensive cloud cover interferences, ocean ship detection performs poorly when using optical remote sensing images. In addition, it is a challenge to detect small ships on medium resolution optical remote sensing that cover a large area. In this paper, in order to balance the requirements of real-time processing and high accuracy detection, we proposed a novel ship detection framework based on locally oriented scene complexity analysis. First, the proposed method can separate a full image into two types of local scenes (i.e., simple or complex local scenes). Next, simple local scenes would utilize the fast saliency model (FSM) to rapidly complete candidate extraction, and for complex local scenes, the ship feature clustering model (SFCM) will be applied to achieve refined detection against severe background interferences. The FSM considers a fusion enhancement image as an input of the pulse response analysis in the frequency domain to achieve rapid ship detection in simple local scenes. Next, the SFCM builds the descriptive model of the ship feature clustering algorithm to ensure the detection performance on complex local scenes. Extensive experiments on SPOT-5 and GF-2 ocean optical remote sensing images show that the proposed ship detection framework has better performance than the state-of-the-art methods, and it addresses the tricky problem of real-time ocean ship detection under strong waves, broken clouds, extensive cloud cover, and ship fleet interferences. Finally, the proposed ocean ship detection framework is demonstrated on an onboard processing hardware.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18113799
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature clustering,optical remote sensing,ship detection,scene partition,saliency
Remote sensing,Engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
11.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
21
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yin Zhuang1177.77
Baogui Qi231.34
he chen39711.09
Fukun Bi4303.49
Lianlin Li510217.46
Yizhuang Xie6105.00