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Among most important challenges encountered in ship detection, we focus on the following three selected ones: (a) ships with low contrast; (b) sea surface in complex situations; and (c) false alarm interference such as clouds and reefs. To overcome these challenges, this paper proposes coarse-to-fine ship detection strategies based on anomaly detection and spatial pyramid pooling pcanet (SPP-PCANet). The anomaly detection algorithm, based on the multivariate Gaussian distribution, regards a ship as an abnormal marine area, effectively extracting candidate regions of ships. Subsequently, we combine PCANet and spatial pyramid pooling to reduce the amount of false positives and improve the detection rate. Furthermore, the non-maximum suppression strategy is adopted to eliminate the overlapped frames on the same ship. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, GF-1 images and GF-2 images were utilized in the experiment, including the three scenarios mentioned above. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method obtains superior performance in the case of complex sea background, and has a certain degree of robustness to external factors such as uneven illumination and low contrast on the GF-1 and GF-2 satellite image data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11010047","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,31]],"date-time":"2018-12-31T07:22:30Z","timestamp":1546240950000},"page":"47","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Automatic Ship Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images Based on Anomaly Detection and SPP-PCANet"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6958-8904","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nan","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Media, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Media, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qizhi","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Media, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yonghua","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Media, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,12,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"201","DOI":"10.1109\/LGRS.2005.845033","article-title":"A Novel Algorithm for Ship Detection in SAR Imagery Based on the Wavelet Transform","volume":"2","author":"Tello","year":"2005","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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