MambaDSF: Multi-Scale SSM with Dilated Feature Fusion for Sonar Small Target Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24928v1
• Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 08:14:19 GMT
• Title: MambaDSF: Multi-Scale SSM with Dilated Feature Fusion for Sonar Small Target Detection
• Abstract summary: Small targets remain difficult to detect due to insufficient pixel coverage, low acoustic contrast, and scale ambiguity across imaging ranges.<n>This letter proposes Mamba Dilated-Scale Fusion (MambaDSF), a hybrid framework addressing these limitations.<n>MambaDSF achieves 91.5% mAP50 on the UATD forward-looking sonar benchmark with 28.7 million parameters, surpassing all compared detectors.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Sonar imaging is the primary modality for underwater target detection, yet small targets remain difficult to detect due to insufficient pixel coverage, low acoustic contrast, and scale ambiguity across imaging ranges. CNN-based detectors extract local features efficiently but cannot suppress noise-induced false alarms without global acoustic context. Transformer-based methods capture long-range dependencies at quadratic computational cost. Existing Mamba-based vision models offer efficient linear-cost scanning but lack multi-scale semantic alignment across pyramid levels, multi-receptive-field fusion, and small-target-aware training supervision needed for reliable sonar detection. This letter proposes Mamba Dilated-Scale Fusion (MambaDSF), a hybrid framework addressing these limitations through three contributions: a Mamba Enhanced Feature Pyramid (MambaEFP) backbone that jointly captures local echo cues and global acoustic context at linear complexity; a Dilate Fusion Mamba (DFMamba) encoder that enforces multi-scale feature alignment across pyramid levels; and Scale-Adaptive Weighted IoU (SA-WIoU) and Cross-Scale Coherence (CSC) losses that stabilize small-target training. MambaDSF achieves 91.5% mAP50 on the UATD forward-looking sonar benchmark with 28.7 million parameters, surpassing all compared detectors. On a small-target subset the gain reached +2.2 percentage points, and cross-domain evaluation on FLS and MD-FLS confirms the generalization of the proposed architecture. The codes are publicly available at https://github.com/IDontKnowAAA/MambaDSF.

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