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Advances in Remote Sensing Image Target Detection and Recognition

A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing Image Processing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2025 | Viewed by 151

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National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Space-Born Intelligent Information Processing (SBIIP), Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: representation learning; object detection; few-shot learning; semantic segmentation
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Remote sensing image target detection and recognition is a hot research topic in computer vison and can effectively extract valuable information from massive accessible remote sensing imagery data, supporting intelligent interpretation systems for earth observation. However, certain sophisticated challenges severely impact the performance of remote sensing image target detection and recognition, hindering intelligent interpretation algorithms’ application in practical systems. Specifically, in situations such as long-tail distribution, few-shot learning, domain shifts, real-time processing requirement, and so on, previously designed remote sensing image target detection and recognition algorithms deliver inferior performance. Thus, new mechanisms and methods need to be explored to improve the learning robustness, processing efficiency, and generalization ability of remote sensing image target detection and recognition, which will be crucial for establishing next-generation remote sensing intelligent interpretation systems.

This Special Issue aims to drive the development of target detection and recognition in the remote sensing domain, establishing a next-generation remote sensing detection and recognition algorithm. Topics may involve semi-supervised learning, transfer learning, and few-shot learning for remote sensing object detection or recognition, while considering specific challenges of remote sensing target characters, i.e., multi-scale, arbitrary orientation, tiny or weak objects, and so on.

Suggested themes and article types include the following:

  1. Few-shot remote sensing object detection and recognition;
  2. Zero-shot remote sensing object detection and recognition;
  3. Cross-domain object detection and recognition in remote sensing domain;
  4. Pretraining technology for remote sensing object detection and recognition;
  5. Long-tail distribution object detection and recognition;
  6. Open-vocabulary object detection in remote sensing domain.

Dr. Yin Zhuang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • semi-supervised learning
  • few-shot learning
  • long-tail distribution
  • domain adaptation
  • open-vocabulary
  • zero-shot learning

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Fine Recognition of MEO SAR Ship Targets Based on a Multi-Level Focusing-Classification Strategy
by Zhaohong Li, Wei Yang, Can Su, Hongcheng Zeng, Yamin Wang, Jiayi Guo and Huaping Xu
Remote Sens. 2025, 17(15), 2599; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17152599 (registering DOI) - 26 Jul 2025
Abstract
The Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has great coverage ability, which can improve maritime ship target surveillance performance significantly. However, due to the huge computational load required for imaging processing and the severe defocusing caused by ship motions, traditional [...] Read more.
The Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has great coverage ability, which can improve maritime ship target surveillance performance significantly. However, due to the huge computational load required for imaging processing and the severe defocusing caused by ship motions, traditional ship recognition conducted in focused image domains cannot process MEO SAR data efficiently. To address this issue, a multi-level focusing-classification strategy for MEO SAR ship recognition is proposed, which is applied to the range-compressed ship data domain. Firstly, global fast coarse-focusing is conducted to compensate for sailing motion errors. Then, a coarse-classification network is designed to realize major target category classification, based on which local region image slices are extracted. Next, fine-focusing is performed to correct high-order motion errors, followed by applying fine-classification applied to the image slices to realize final ship classification. Equivalent MEO SAR ship images generated by real LEO SAR data are utilized to construct training and testing datasets. Simulated MEO SAR ship data are also used to evaluate the generalization of the whole method. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve high classification precision. Since only local region slices are used during the second-level processing step, the complex computations induced by fine-focusing for the full image can be avoided, thereby significantly improving overall efficiency. Full article
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