Ship Classification in High-Resolution SAR Images Using Deep Learning of Small Datasets

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 18; no. 9; p. 2929
• Main Authors: Wang, Yuanyuan, Wang, Chao, Zhang, Hong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 03.09.2018; MDPI
• Subjects: Algorithms; Classification; convolutional neural networks; Datasets; fine tuning; high-resolution SAR images; Methods; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Remote sensing; Researchers; ship classification; small datasets; Training; transfer learning; Beijing China; United States > US; China; Germany; ship classification; fine tuning; transfer learning; convolutional neural networks; high-resolution SAR images; small datasets

With the capability to automatically learn discriminative features, deep learning has experienced great success in natural images but has rarely been explored for ship classification in high-resolution SAR images due to the training bottleneck caused by the small datasets. In this paper, convolution...