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

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 ac...

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Published in:	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Main Authors:	Shuang Liu, Dong Li, Renjie Jiang, Qinghua Liu, Jun Wan, Xiaopeng Yang, Hehao Liu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 2023-01-01
Subjects:	Mixed-scale synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection search and refinement network self-distillation
Online Access:	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10285007/

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