Unsupervised Ship Detection Based on Saliency and S-HOG Descriptor From Optical Satellite Images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1451-1455

  Qi, Shengxiang ^a   Ma, Jie ^a   Lin, Jin ^a   Li, Yansheng ^a   Tian, Jinwen ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Histogram of oriented gradient (HOG); remote sensing; ship detection; visual saliency

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; VISUALIZATION;

HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS; HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENTS (HOG); OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGES; PANCHROMATIC SATELLITES; SHIP DETECTION; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; VISUAL SALIENCY;

SHIPS;

EID: 84933055942     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2408355     Document Type: Article

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