A Feature Enhancement Method Based on the Sub-Aperture Decomposition for Rotating Frame Ship Detection in SAR Images

Deep learning algorithms are widely used in SAR target detection. At present, most detection methods based on neural networks treat SAR images as optical images for processing, and do not fully exploit the characteristics of SAR images. In this paper, a method for feature enhancement using sub-aperture decomposition is proposed. Considering the advantages of the rotate box in eliminating interference, we conducted experiments on the rotating frame detection network Rotate RetinaNet using the Complex SAR images Rotation Ship Detection Dataset (CSRSDD). Compared with the base method, AP improves by 2.4% without bells and whistles. The results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.