Abstract
Ship detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a major issue in maritime surveillance and port management. Existing challenges are mainly as follows: (1) Tiny ships are mixed with scattered noise spots on the sea. (2) Ships are present in extreme aspect-ratios and various scales. (3) The land background blurs the outline of coastal ships. To address these problems, we propose an efficient detection neural network (DLAHSD) that integrates the Multi-scale Feature Location Fusion (MFLF) module and the Auxiliary Detection Head (ADH) based CenterNet. In addition, we designed a Dynamic Elliptic Gaussian (DEG) module to label the heatmap of ships. Experimental results on the challenging SSDD dataset show that our model offers improved performance over the baseline methods. The codes will be available at https://github.com/SYLan2019/DLAHSD.