[HTML][HTML] Multi-YOLOv8: An infrared moving small object detection model based on YOLOv8 for air vehicle

S Sun, B Mo, J Xu, D Li, J Zhao, S Han - Neurocomputing, 2024 - Elsevier
The detection of infrared moving small objects faces significant challenges in the field of
object detection for air vehicles. These types of objects usually occupy a small number of …

SonarNet: Hybrid CNN-transformer-HOG framework and multifeature fusion mechanism for forward-looking sonar image segmentation

J He, J Chen, H Xu, Y Yu - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Forward-looking sonar (FLS) image segmentation plays a significant role in ocean
engineering. However, the existing image segmentation algorithms present difficulties in …

Efficient SonarNet: Lightweight CNN Grafted Vision Transformer Embedding Network for Forward-Looking Sonar Image Segmentation

J He, H Xu, S Li, Y Yu - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the intricate underwater environment leads to blurry and faint features of sonar targets,
SonarNet has depicted great success due to its high model capabilities and multifeature …

[HTML][HTML] Underwater side-scan sonar target detection: YOLOv7 model combined with attention mechanism and scaling factor

X Wen, J Wang, C Cheng, F Zhang, G Pan - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
Side-scan sonar plays a crucial role in underwater exploration, and the autonomous
detection of side-scan sonar images is vital for detecting unknown underwater …

Robust Unsupervised Multi-Feature Representation for Infrared Small Target Detection

L Chen, T Wu, S Zheng, Z Qiu… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Infrared small target detection is critical to infrared search and tracking systems. However,
accurate and robust detection remains challenging due to the scarcity of target information …

[HTML][HTML] APM-YOLOv7 for Small-Target Water-Floating Garbage Detection Based on Multi-Scale Feature Adaptive Weighted Fusion

Z Jiang, B Wu, L Ma, H Zhang, J Lian - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
As affected by limited information and the complex background, the accuracy of small-target
water-floating garbage detection is low. To increase the detection accuracy, in this research …

Towards real-time detection of underwater target with pruning lightweight deep learning method in side-scan sonar images

R Tang, Y Chen, J Gao, Y Wang, S Hao - Neurocomputing, 2025 - Elsevier
Real-time detection of underwater targets through side-scan sonar (SSS) images is
challenging due to the complex underwater environment and heavy computational load …

A curvelet-transform-based image fusion method incorporating side-scan sonar image features

X Zhao, S **, G Bian, Y Cui, J Wang… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Current methods of fusing side-scan sonar images fail to tackle the issues of shadow
removal, preservation of information from adjacent strip images, and maintenance of image …

A multi-task water surface visual perception network for unmanned surface vehicles

H Xu, Z Geng, J He, Y Shi, Y Yu… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, the significance of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) has grown
substantially across a wide range of applications. The monocular camera, as the most …

Marine object detection in forward-looking sonar images via semantic-spatial feature enhancement

Z Wang, J Guo, S Zhang, N Xu - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Forward-looking sonar object detection plays a vital role in marine applications such as
underwater navigation, surveillance, and exploration, serving as an essential underwater …