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We combine the receptive field enhancement module (REF) with the spatial pyramid rapid pooling module to retain richer semantic information and expand the sensory field. The slim-neck module based on a lightweight convolution (GSConv) is added to the neck section, to achieve greater computational cost-effectiveness of the detector. And, to lift the model\u2019s performance and focus on positional information, we added the coordinate attention mechanism. Finally, the loss function CIoU is replaced by SIoU. Experimental results using the seaShips dataset show that compared with the original YOLOv5 algorithm, the improved YOLOv5 algorithm has certain improvements in model evaluation indexes, while the number of parameters in the model does not increase significantly, and the detection speed also meets the requirements of sea surface ship detection.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/a16120534","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,22]],"date-time":"2023-11-22T08:47:43Z","timestamp":1700642863000},"page":"534","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Ship Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv5 Network Improved with Lightweight Convolution and Attention Mechanism"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Langyu","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Logistics Engineering College, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Logistics Engineering College, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yahong","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electromechanical and Automotive Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai 264005, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shuai","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200204, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuanyuan","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Logistics Engineering College, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1932-2267","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bo","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200204, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Ross, G., Jeff, D., Trevor, D., and Malik, J. 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