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EfficientShip: A Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Ship Detection in the River

Huafeng Chen1, Junxing Xue2, Hanyun Wen2, Yurong Hu1, Yudong Zhang3,*

1 School of Computer Engineering, Jingchu University of Technology, Jingmen, 448000, China
2 School of Computer Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, 434023, China
3 School of Computing and Mathematic Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

* Corresponding Author: Yudong Zhang. Email: email

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2024, 138(1), 301-320. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.028738

Abstract

Optical image-based ship detection can ensure the safety of ships and promote the orderly management of ships in offshore waters. Current deep learning researches on optical image-based ship detection mainly focus on improving one-stage detectors for real-time ship detection but sacrifices the accuracy of detection. To solve this problem, we present a hybrid ship detection framework which is named EfficientShip in this paper. The core parts of the EfficientShip are DLA-backboned object location (DBOL) and CascadeRCNN-guided object classification (CROC). The DBOL is responsible for finding potential ship objects, and the CROC is used to categorize the potential ship objects. We also design a pixel-spatial-level data augmentation (PSDA) to reduce the risk of detection model overfitting. We compare the proposed EfficientShip with state-of-the-art (SOTA) literature on a ship detection dataset called Seaships. Experiments show our ship detection framework achieves a result of 99.63% (mAP) at 45 fps, which is much better than 8 SOTA approaches on detection accuracy and can also meet the requirements of real-time application scenarios.

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Chen, H., Xue, J., Wen, H., Hu, Y., Zhang, Y. (2024). Efficientship: A hybrid deep learning framework for ship detection in the river. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 138(1), 301-320. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.028738
Vancouver Style
Chen H, Xue J, Wen H, Hu Y, Zhang Y. Efficientship: A hybrid deep learning framework for ship detection in the river. Comput Model Eng Sci. 2024;138(1):301-320 https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.028738
IEEE Style
H. Chen, J. Xue, H. Wen, Y. Hu, and Y. Zhang, “EfficientShip: A Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Ship Detection in the River,” Comput. Model. Eng. Sci., vol. 138, no. 1, pp. 301-320, 2024. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.028738



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