Remote sensing systems for ocean: A review (Part 2: Active systems)

M Amani, F Mohseni, NF Layegh… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As discussed in the previous part of this review article, remote sensing (RS) creates
unprecedented opportunities by providing a variety of systems with different characteristics …

Underwater forward-looking sonar images target detection via speckle reduction and scene prior

H Long, L Shen, Z Wang, J Chen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Forward-looking sonar (FLS) imagery system plays a significant role in oceanic object
recognition and detection since it can overcome the limitation of lighting conditions and …

On the use of tiny convolutional neural networks for human-expert-level classification performance in sonar imagery

DP Williams - IEEE journal of oceanic engineering, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are designed and trained for an underwater
target classification task with synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery collected at sea. The …

MLFFNet: Multilevel feature fusion network for object detection in sonar images

Z Wang, J Guo, L Zeng, C Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sonar image object detection is essential in underwater rescue and resource exploration.
Although many convolution neural network (CNN)-based object detection algorithms have …

Wide‐bandwidth signal‐based multireceiver SAS imagery using extended chirp scaling algorithm

X Zhang, P Yang, P Huang, H Sun… - IET Radar, Sonar & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional chirp scaling algorithm is often developed based on the quadratic approximation
of point target reference spectrum, which neglects the higher‐order coupling between range …

Resonant Scattering Inspired Deep Networks for Munition Detection in 3D Sonar Imagery

T Hoang, KS Dalton, ID Gerg… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater sites affected by unexploded ordnance (UXO) pose significant risks to both
human safety and environmental well-being. Sonar imaging is commonly employed to …

Sonar Image Underwater Target Recognition: A Comprehensive Overview and Prospects

H HUANG, B LI, J LIU, Z LIU, L WEI, S ZHAO - 电子与信息学报, 2024 - jeit.ac.cn
With the increasing development of marine resources and underwater operations, sonar
image-based underwater target recognition has become a hot research area. This article …

A statistically-based method for the detection of underwater objects in sonar imagery

A Abu, R Diamant - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We offer a new unsupervised statistically-based algorithm for the detection of underwater
objects in synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery due to its high-resolution imagery and …

BP algorithm for the multireceiver SAS

X Zhang, P Yang, C Tan, W Ying - IET Radar, Sonar & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The imaging performance and efficiency are two important issues for the multireceiver
synthetic aperture sonar (SAS). Back projection (BP) algorithm is characterised by the high …

Structural prior driven regularized deep learning for sonar image classification

ID Gerg, V Monga - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning has been recently shown to improve performance in the domain of synthetic
aperture sonar (SAS) image classification. Given the constant resolution with a range of …