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Neurorobot."],"abstract":"<jats:p>With the development of deep learning, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection and recognition based on deep learning have gained widespread application and advancement. However, there are still challenging issues, manifesting in two primary facets: firstly, the imaging mechanism of SAR results in significant noise interference, making it difficult to separate background noise from ship target features in complex backgrounds such as ports and urban areas; secondly, the heterogeneous scales of ship target features result in the susceptibility of smaller targets to information loss, rendering them elusive to detection. In this article, we propose a context-aware one-stage ship detection network that exhibits heightened sensitivity to scale variations and robust resistance to noise interference. Then we introduce a Local feature refinement module (LFRM), which utilizes multiple receptive fields of different sizes to extract local multi-scale information, followed by a two-branch channel-wise attention approach to obtain local cross-channel interactions. To minimize the effect of a complex background on the target, we design the global context aggregation module (GCAM) to enhance the feature representation of the target and suppress the interference of noise by acquiring long-range dependencies. Finally, we validate the effectiveness of our method on three publicly available SAR ship detection datasets, SAR-Ship-Dataset, high-resolution SAR images dataset (HRSID), and SAR ship detection dataset (SSDD). 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