MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images

Due to the complex sea background and the different sizes and shapes of ships, the detection of ship targets has the problems of low detection rate, high false detection rate and high missed detection rate. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model...

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Main Authors: Jianfeng Li, Yibing Yang, Liutong Yang, Yang Zhao, Qinghua Luo, Chenxu Wang
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2025-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/10106049.2025.2521826
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Yang Zhao
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description Due to the complex sea background and the different sizes and shapes of ships, the detection of ship targets has the problems of low detection rate, high false detection rate and high missed detection rate. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images. A weighted fusion method of Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) was used to extract shape and texture features simultaneously. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to reduce the dimension of fused features to reduce the false detection rate caused by redundant noise interference. The feature pyramid was constructed to realize the feature fusion of different levels. In addition, a re-screening method based on color features or geometric features is proposed to further reduce the false detection rate. The accuracy and recall rate of the proposed detection algorithm in the DFH-MODIS dataset reach 97.9%and 79.8% respectively. Compared with the ship target detection algorithm based on HOG feature combined with SVM classifier, the F1-score is improved from 0.554 to 0.879. It effectively improves the detection performance of the ship target detection algorithm in optical remote sensing images, and has better effectiveness and robustness.
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spelling doaj-art-602be51ff8d24730892a2d275ca1d6bd2025-08-20T03:29:58ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGeocarto International1010-60491752-07622025-12-0140110.1080/10106049.2025.2521826MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing imagesJianfeng Li0Yibing Yang1Liutong Yang2Yang Zhao3Qinghua Luo4Chenxu Wang5The School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), WeihaiThe School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), WeihaiThe School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, HarbinThe School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), WeihaiThe School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), WeihaiThe School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), WeihaiDue to the complex sea background and the different sizes and shapes of ships, the detection of ship targets has the problems of low detection rate, high false detection rate and high missed detection rate. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images. A weighted fusion method of Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) was used to extract shape and texture features simultaneously. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to reduce the dimension of fused features to reduce the false detection rate caused by redundant noise interference. The feature pyramid was constructed to realize the feature fusion of different levels. In addition, a re-screening method based on color features or geometric features is proposed to further reduce the false detection rate. The accuracy and recall rate of the proposed detection algorithm in the DFH-MODIS dataset reach 97.9%and 79.8% respectively. Compared with the ship target detection algorithm based on HOG feature combined with SVM classifier, the F1-score is improved from 0.554 to 0.879. It effectively improves the detection performance of the ship target detection algorithm in optical remote sensing images, and has better effectiveness and robustness.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/10106049.2025.2521826Machine learningremote sensing imageship detectionfeature fusion
spellingShingle Jianfeng Li
Yibing Yang
Liutong Yang
Yang Zhao
Qinghua Luo
Chenxu Wang
MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images
Geocarto International
Machine learning
remote sensing image
ship detection
feature fusion
title MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images
title_full MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images
title_fullStr MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images
title_full_unstemmed MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images
title_short MF-ShipNet: a multi-feature weighted fusion and PCA-SVM model for ship detection in remote sensing images
title_sort mf shipnet a multi feature weighted fusion and pca svm model for ship detection in remote sensing images
topic Machine learning
remote sensing image
ship detection
feature fusion
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/10106049.2025.2521826
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