Convolutional Feature Enhancement and Attention Fusion BiFPN for Ship Detection in SAR Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15231v1
• Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:14:28 GMT
• Title: Convolutional Feature Enhancement and Attention Fusion BiFPN for Ship Detection in SAR Images
• Authors: Liangjie Meng, Danxia Li, Jinrong He, Lili Ma, Zhixin Li,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a novel feature enhancement and fusion framework named C-AFBiFPN.<n>C-AFBiFPN constructs a Convolutional Feature Enhancement (CFE) module following the backbone network.<n>C-AFBiFPN innovatively integrates BiFormer attention within the fusion strategy of BiFPN, creating the AFBiFPN network.
• Score: 3.1536619649037716
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) enables submeter-resolution imaging and all-weather monitoring via active microwave and advanced signal processing. Currently, SAR has found extensive applications in critical maritime domains such as ship detection. However, SAR ship detection faces several challenges, including significant scale variations among ships, the presence of small offshore vessels mixed with noise, and complex backgrounds for large nearshore ships. To address these issues, this paper proposes a novel feature enhancement and fusion framework named C-AFBiFPN. C-AFBiFPN constructs a Convolutional Feature Enhancement (CFE) module following the backbone network, aiming to enrich feature representation and enhance the ability to capture and represent local details and contextual information. Furthermore, C-AFBiFPN innovatively integrates BiFormer attention within the fusion strategy of BiFPN, creating the AFBiFPN network. AFBiFPN improves the global modeling capability of cross-scale feature fusion and can adaptively focus on critical feature regions. The experimental results on SAR Ship Detection Dataset (SSDD) indicate that the proposed approach substantially enhances detection accuracy for small targets, robustness against occlusions, and adaptability to multi-scale features.

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