Fine-Grained Classification of Optical Remote Sensing Ship Images Based on Deep Convolution Neural Network

Marine activities occupy an important position in human society. The accurate classification of ships is an effective monitoring method. However, traditional image classification has the problem of low classification accuracy, and the corresponding ship dataset also has the problem of long-tail dist...

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Main Authors: Yantong Chen, Zhongling Zhang, Zekun Chen, Yanyan Zhang, Junsheng Wang
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Published: MDPI AG 2022-09-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/18/4566
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author Yantong Chen
Zhongling Zhang
Zekun Chen
Yanyan Zhang
Junsheng Wang
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Zhongling Zhang
Zekun Chen
Yanyan Zhang
Junsheng Wang
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description Marine activities occupy an important position in human society. The accurate classification of ships is an effective monitoring method. However, traditional image classification has the problem of low classification accuracy, and the corresponding ship dataset also has the problem of long-tail distribution. Aimed at solving these problems, this paper proposes a fine-grained classification method of optical remote sensing ship images based on deep convolution neural network. We use three-level images to extract three-level features for classification. The first-level image is the original image as an auxiliary. The specific position of the ship in the original image is located by the gradient-weighted class activation mapping. The target-level image as the second-level image is obtained by threshold processing the class activation map. The third-level image is the midship position image extracted from the target image. Then we add self-calibrated convolutions to the feature extraction network to enrich the output features. Finally, the class imbalance is solved by reweighting the class-balanced loss function. Experimental results show that we can achieve accuracies of 92.81%, 93.54% and 93.97%, respectively, after applying the proposed method on different datasets. Compared with other classification methods, this method has a higher accuracy in optical aerospace remote sensing ship classification.
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spelling doaj.art-9c54448416c74341ad25e27b7c024ecf2023-11-23T18:44:46ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922022-09-011418456610.3390/rs14184566Fine-Grained Classification of Optical Remote Sensing Ship Images Based on Deep Convolution Neural NetworkYantong Chen0Zhongling Zhang1Zekun Chen2Yanyan Zhang3Junsheng Wang4Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Sensing and Intelligent Detection, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, ChinaLiaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Sensing and Intelligent Detection, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, ChinaLiaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Sensing and Intelligent Detection, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, ChinaLiaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Sensing and Intelligent Detection, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, ChinaLiaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Sensing and Intelligent Detection, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, ChinaMarine activities occupy an important position in human society. The accurate classification of ships is an effective monitoring method. However, traditional image classification has the problem of low classification accuracy, and the corresponding ship dataset also has the problem of long-tail distribution. Aimed at solving these problems, this paper proposes a fine-grained classification method of optical remote sensing ship images based on deep convolution neural network. We use three-level images to extract three-level features for classification. The first-level image is the original image as an auxiliary. The specific position of the ship in the original image is located by the gradient-weighted class activation mapping. The target-level image as the second-level image is obtained by threshold processing the class activation map. The third-level image is the midship position image extracted from the target image. Then we add self-calibrated convolutions to the feature extraction network to enrich the output features. Finally, the class imbalance is solved by reweighting the class-balanced loss function. Experimental results show that we can achieve accuracies of 92.81%, 93.54% and 93.97%, respectively, after applying the proposed method on different datasets. Compared with other classification methods, this method has a higher accuracy in optical aerospace remote sensing ship classification.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/18/4566optical remote sensing ship imagefine grained classificationconvolutional neural networkgradient-weighted class activation mappingself-calibrated convolutionsclass-balanced loss
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Zhongling Zhang
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Junsheng Wang
Fine-Grained Classification of Optical Remote Sensing Ship Images Based on Deep Convolution Neural Network
Remote Sensing
optical remote sensing ship image
fine grained classification
convolutional neural network
gradient-weighted class activation mapping
self-calibrated convolutions
class-balanced loss
title Fine-Grained Classification of Optical Remote Sensing Ship Images Based on Deep Convolution Neural Network
title_full Fine-Grained Classification of Optical Remote Sensing Ship Images Based on Deep Convolution Neural Network
title_fullStr Fine-Grained Classification of Optical Remote Sensing Ship Images Based on Deep Convolution Neural Network
title_full_unstemmed Fine-Grained Classification of Optical Remote Sensing Ship Images Based on Deep Convolution Neural Network
title_short Fine-Grained Classification of Optical Remote Sensing Ship Images Based on Deep Convolution Neural Network
title_sort fine grained classification of optical remote sensing ship images based on deep convolution neural network
topic optical remote sensing ship image
fine grained classification
convolutional neural network
gradient-weighted class activation mapping
self-calibrated convolutions
class-balanced loss
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/18/4566
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