SAR image ship detection based on visual attention model

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2003-2006

  Hou, Biao ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Wang, Shuang ^a   Hou, Xiaojin ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DFH SATELLITE CO LTD   (China)

Author keywords

Saliency Map; Ship Detection; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); Visual Attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894237180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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