Very deep learning for ship discrimination in Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery
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- 3 November 2016
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 104-107
Abstract
Efficient and effective ship discrimination across multiple Synthetic Aperture Radar sensors is becoming more important as access to SAR data becomes more widespread. A flexible means of separating ships from sea is ideal and can be accomplished using machine learning. Newer, advanced deep learning techniques offer a unique solution but traditionally require a large dataset to train effectively. Highway Networks allow for very deep networks that can be trained using the smaller datasets typical in SAR-based ship detection. A flexible network configuration is possible within Highway Networks due to an adaptive gating mechanism which prevents gradient decay across many layers. This paper presents a very deep High Network configuration as a ship discrimination stage for SAR ship detection. It also presents a three-class SAR dataset that allows for more meaningful analysis of ship discrimination performances. The proposed method was tested on a this SAR dataset and had the highest mean accuracy of all methods tested at 96.67%. The proposed ship discrimination method also provides improved false positive classification compared to the other methods tested.Keywords
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