SAR Ship Detection Based on Gaussian Probability and Eigenvalue Analysis
| dc.contributor.author | Hanbay, Kazim | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-04-04T13:33:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-04-04T13:33:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.department | İnönü Üniversitesi | |
| dc.description.abstract | Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are frequently used because they provide optimal image quality in all weather conditions. Nevertheless, SAR ship detection has two difficulties. One is coherent speckle noise, which raises false alarms and confuses ships with similar objects. This letter proposes an efficient ship detector for low contrast, inshore and dense targets. First, to accurately eliminate the land areas and speckle noise, the hessian matrix and eigenvalues of the images were calculated. The largest eigenvalue information was given as input to the Gaussian function and the standard deviation and average images of the images were calculated. Then, the standard deviation and average images were combined with a probabilistic approach to obtain an image that highlights the ship regions. Morphological operations and connected component analysis were performed on this image. Experimental results showed that the proposed method provides both accurate and faster results. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [123E344] | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under Project 123E344. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1109/LSP.2025.3571640 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 2218 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1070-9908 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1558-2361 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-1374-1417 | |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-105005883337 | |
| dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q1 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 2214 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3571640 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11616/109129 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 32 | |
| dc.identifier.wos | WOS:001499502100003 | |
| dc.identifier.wosquality | Q2 | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | |
| dc.institutionauthor | Hanbay, Kazim | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | IEEE Signal Processing Letters | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | |
| dc.snmz | KA_WOS_20250329 | |
| dc.subject | Marine vehicles | |
| dc.subject | Radar polarimetry | |
| dc.subject | Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions | |
| dc.subject | Standards | |
| dc.subject | Synthetic aperture radar | |
| dc.subject | Meteorology | |
| dc.subject | Deep learning | |
| dc.subject | Coastlines | |
| dc.subject | Accuracy | |
| dc.subject | Training | |
| dc.subject | Eigenvalues | |
| dc.subject | Gaussian probability | |
| dc.subject | ship detection | |
| dc.subject | synthetic aperture radar (SAR) | |
| dc.title | SAR Ship Detection Based on Gaussian Probability and Eigenvalue Analysis | |
| dc.type | Article |











