Study on Ship Target Detection and Recognition in SAR imagery

Analysis the characteristics of SAR ship target detection and identification. Summarize and divide the commonly used features into three categories : spatial features, transform features and the moving feature. The general ship detection and identification process is discussed in details. The development of SAR ship target detection and identification are surveyed and the mainstream approaches are listed. The main problems on ship detection and recognition process have been described as well. Finally a possible development direction of SAR ship target detection and recognition is given. It is expected that the researchers will obtain useful information from this paper, which will help for their future works and promote the SAR image target detection and recognition of ship development.

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