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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,261 Views
21 Pages

20 July 2023

Aiming at maritime infrared target detection with low contrast influenced by maritime clutter and illumination, this paper proposes a Modified Histogram Equalization with Edge Fusion (MHEEF) pre-processing algorithm in backlight maritime scenes and e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,236 Views
19 Pages

11 October 2023

The infrared small target detection technology has a wide range of applications in maritime defense warning and maritime border reconnaissance, especially in the maritime and sky scenes for detecting potential terrorist attacks and monitoring maritim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,174 Views
18 Pages

30 October 2023

Ship detection in large-scene offshore synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is crucial in civil and military fields, such as maritime management and wartime reconnaissance. However, the problems of low detection rates, high false alarm rates, and hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,863 Views
19 Pages

A Ship Tracking and Speed Extraction Framework in Hazy Weather Based on Deep Learning

  • Zhenzhen Zhou,
  • Jiansen Zhao,
  • Xinqiang Chen and
  • Yanjun Chen

Obtaining ship navigation information from maritime videos can significantly improve maritime supervision efficiency and enable timely safety warnings. Ship detection and tracking are essential technologies for mining video information. However, curr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,994 Views
25 Pages

YOLO-UAVShip: An Effective Method and Dateset for Multi-View Ship Detection in UAV Images

  • Youguang Li,
  • Yichen Tian,
  • Chao Yuan,
  • Kun Yu,
  • Kai Yin,
  • Huiping Huang,
  • Guang Yang,
  • Fan Li and
  • Zengguang Zhou

8 September 2025

Maritime unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ship detection faces challenges including variations in ship pose and appearance under multiple viewpoints, occlusion and confusion in dense scenes, complex backgrounds, and the scarcity of ship datasets from UA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,359 Views
17 Pages

3 September 2023

Ship detection in optical remote sensing images plays a vital role in numerous civil and military applications, encompassing maritime rescue, port management and sea area surveillance. However, the multi-scale and deformation characteristics of ships...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,699 Views
10 Pages

9 February 2023

Terahertz massive MIMO systems can be used in the local area network (LAN) scene of maritime communication and has great application prospects. To solve the problems of excessive beam training overhead in beam tracking and beam splitting in beam aggr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,022 Views
30 Pages

11 October 2023

Maritime moving target imaging using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) demands high resolution and wide swath (HRWS). Using the variable pulse repetition interval (PRI), staggered SAR can achieve seamless HRWS imaging. The reconstruction should be perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,285 Views
26 Pages

26 June 2025

Dark ships, vessels deliberately disabling their AIS signals, constitute a grave maritime safety hazard, with detection efforts hindered by issues like over-reliance on AIS, inadequate surveillance coverage, and significant mismatch rates. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,953 Views
29 Pages

17 June 2024

In an increasingly globalized world, the intelligent extraction of maritime targets is crucial for both military defense and maritime traffic monitoring. The flexibility and cost-effectiveness of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in remote sensing make...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,982 Views
18 Pages

28 November 2023

This paper proposes an Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging and detection model of multiple targets at the maritime scene. The sea surface sample is generated according to the composite rough surface theory. The SAR imaging model is constructed bas...

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  • Open Access
126 Views
24 Pages

12 March 2026

Optical remote sensing ship detection faces significant challenges in realistic maritime scenes due to strong background clutter (e.g., docks, shorelines, wake streaks), extreme scale variation, and the elongated geometry of ships with diverse orient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,597 Views
18 Pages

Salient Ship Detection via Background Prior and Foreground Constraint in Remote Sensing Images

  • Jianming Hu,
  • Xiyang Zhi,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Longfei Ren and
  • Lorenzo Bruzzone

15 October 2020

Automatic ship detection in complicated maritime background is a challenging task in the field of optical remote sensing image interpretation and analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel and reliable ship detection framework based on a visual sali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,786 Views
16 Pages

15 December 2020

Climate studies, including trend detection and other time series analyses, necessarily require stable, well-characterized and long-term data records. For satellite-based geophysical retrieval datasets, such data records often involve merging the obse...