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A Mixed-Scale Self-Distillation Network for Accurate Ship Detection in SAR Images

Shuang Liu,Dong Li, Renjie Jiang,Qinghua Liu,Jun Wan,Xiaopeng Yang, Hehao Liu

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing(2023)

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Ship detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has attracted extensive attention due to its promising applications. While numerous methods for ship detection have been proposed, detecting ships in complex scenarios remains challenging. The main factors contributing to the lower detection accuracy are SAR image characteristics, such as blurred outlines, and similar scattering intensities between actual ship targets and background environment, induced by the special imaging mechanism. To alleviate these issues, we propose a mixed-scale self-distillation network (MSNet) for accurate ship detection in SAR images. First, the zoom strategy is used to obtain more ship target information, and differentiated information between ship targets and background environments at different scales is aggregated through the designed search module. Then, the consistency self-distillation module is proposed to match feature attention maps at different scales, which forces the model to capture the potential semantic attributes of ship targets through a self-distillation fashion. After that, the refinement module is developed to further enhance the discriminative semantics among different hierarchical features under mixed scales. Furthermore, to alleviate the uncertainty arising from indistinguishable background interference in SAR images, we introduce an uncertainty perception loss to facilitate the model to make accurate judgments in candidate regions. Extensive experiments are performed on the SAR ship detection dataset from the Gaofen-3, RadarSat-2, Sentinel-1, and TerraSAR satellites. The experimental results consistently demonstrate the superiority of our method over the existing state-of-the-art methods. Besides, detailed model analysis experiments further validate the effectiveness of our proposed method in SAR image ship detection tasks.
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Mixed-scale,synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection,search and refinement network,self-distillation
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