arXiv · 1804.09322
Robust Anomaly-Based Ship Proposals Detection from Pan-sharpened High-Resolution Satellite Image
Abstract
Pre-screening of ship proposals is now employed by top ship detectors to avoid exhaustive search across image. In very high resolution (VHR) optical image, ships appeared as a cluster of abnormal bright pixels in open sea clutter (noise-like background). Anomaly-based detector utilizing Panchromatic (PAN) data has been widely used in many researches to detect ships, however, still facing two main drawbacks: 1) detection rate tend to be low particularly when a ship is low contrast and 2) these models require a high manual configuration to select a threshold value best separate ships from sea surface background. This paper aims at further investigation of anomaly-based model to solve those issues. First, pan-sharpened Multi Spectral (MS) data is incorporated together with PAN to enhance ship discrimination. Second, we propose an improved anomaly-based model combining both global intensity anomaly and local texture anomaly map. Regarding noise appeared due to the present of sea clutter and because of pan-sharpen process, texture abnormality suppression term based on quantization theory is introduced. Experimental results on VNREDSat-1 VHR optical satellite images suggest that the pan-sharpened near-infrared (P-NIR) band can improve discrimination of ships from surrounding waters. Compared to state-of-the-art anomaly-based detectors, our proposed anomaly-based model on the combination of PAN and P-NIR data cannot only achieved highest ship detection's recall rate (91.14% and 45.9% on high-contrast and low-contrast dataset respectively) but also robust to different automatic threshold selection techniques.
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Viet Hung Luu, Nguyen Hoang Hoa Luong, Quang Hung Bui, Thi Nhat Thanh Nguyen. 2018-04-25. Robust Anomaly-Based Ship Proposals Detection from Pan-sharpened High-Resolution Satellite Image. https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09322
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