Journal of Jilin University(Engineering and Technology Edition) ›› 2026, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (2): 533-542.doi: 10.13229/j.cnki.jdxbgxb.20240753

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Lightweight object detection algorithm for ship recognition in remote sensing image

Fan ZHANG1(),Jing-bo WANG1,Yang ZHU1,Hai-ying LIU2,Yu ZHENG1,Wen-hua WANG1()   

  1. 1.College of Instrumentation & Electrical Engineering,Jilin University,Changchun 130061,China
    2.Jilin Dongguang Group Corporation,Changchun 130012,China
  • Received:2024-07-08 Online:2026-02-01 Published:2026-03-17
  • Contact: Wen-hua WANG E-mail:zhangfan1@jlu.edu.cn;wangwh900@jlu.edu.cn

Abstract:

To solve the problem of existing deep learning-based object detection algorithms being unsuitable for onboard deployment due to their complexity, a multi-scale feature enhanced lightweight detection algorithm (MFLDet) for ship recognition tasks in optical remote sensing images is proposed. Firstly, to reduce the algorithm's parameter and computation load, a lightweight network architecture, PG-HGNet, is constructed as the backbone network, and constructs a lightweight cross-scale feature fusion network for interactive feature integration. Secondly, a multi-scale feature enhancement module (MFEM) is designed to accommodate the scale variability of ship targets in remote sensing images, thereby enhancing detection accuracy. Finally, the MPDIoU bounding box loss function is introduced to adjust for cases where the predicted and actual bounding boxes share the same aspect ratio but differ in absolute dimensions. Comparative experiments conducted on the HRSC2016 dataset demonstrate that, compared to the baseline model, MFLDet achieves a 55% reduction in parameters and a 23.5% reduction in computation, with only a 0.2 percentage points decrease in average precision, thus effectively balancing complexity and accuracy. Overall, the proposed method surpasses other comparative methods in terms of both lightweight level and detection precision.

Key words: computer vision, object detection, remote sensing image, feature enhancement

CLC Number: 

  • TP391.4

Fig.1

Architecture of MFLDet"

Fig.2

Architecture of G-HG Block"

Fig.3

Architecture of Ghostconv"

Fig.4

Architecture of MFEM"

Fig.5

Architecture of feature fusion network"

Fig.6

Architecture of Bottleneck Block"

Fig.7

MPDIoU schematic"

Table 1

Comparative experiment of MFEM position"

实验编号mAP0.5/%mAP0.5:0.95/%参数量/MFLOPs/G
189.8771.506.0
289.775.21.767.3
390.276.51.977.4
490.978.81.356.2

Fig.8

Comparison experiment of heatmap"

Table 2

Ablation experiment"

模型

mAP0.5/

%

mAP0.5:0.95/

%

参数量/

M

FLOPs/

G

基线91.178.73.018.1
+PG-HGNet89.876.12.316.8
+LW-BiFPN91.779.11.997.1
+MFEM92.280.73.338.7
+MPDIoU91.979.83.018.1

+PG-HGNet+

LW-BiFPN

90.377.21.295.8

+MFEM+

MPDIoU

92.581.13.338.7
+all90.978.81.356.2

Table 3

Comparative experiment of mainstream object detection algorithm"

算法

mAP0.5/

%

mAP0.5:0.95/

%

参数量/

M

FLOPs/

G

Faster R-CNN90.265.4136.69369.7
SSD64.537.723.6160.8
Yolov3-tiny90.974.612.1318.9
Yolov5nano90.877.32.507.1
Yolov7-tiny90.671.26.2313.9
Yolov10nano87.174.22.698.2
本文90.978.81.356.2

Table 4

Comparative experiment of advanced model"

算法mAP0.5/%参数量/MFLOPs/G
SOCDet1794.2810.0116.72
AOPG1890.5833.87164.33
PP-PicoDet-S1990.891.0813.92
LO-Det2090.176.7810.98
VOD-YOLOv72192.17.45116
本文90.91.356.2

Table 5

Generalization experiment based on the Dior-ship dataset"

算法

mAP0.5/

%

mAP0.5:0.95/

%

参数量/

M

FLOPs/

G

Yolov3-tiny91.356.812.118.9
Yolov5nano97.1612.57.1
Yolov7-tiny96.461.36.2313.9
Yolov8nano96.861.738.1
Yolov10nano96.561.12.698.2
本文96.660.91.356.2
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