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Generating a set of ship proposals before detection operation can effectively alleviate the multi-scale problem. In order to construct a scale-independent proposal generator for SAR images, we suggest four characteristics of ships in SAR images and the corresponding four procedures in this paper. Based on these characteristics and procedures, we put forward a framework to explore multi-scale ship proposals. The designed framework mainly contains two stages: hierarchical grouping and proposal scoring. Firstly, we extract edges, superpixels and strong scattering components from SAR images. The ship proposals are obtained at hierarchical grouping stage by combining the strong scattering components with superpixel grouping. Considering the difference of edge density and the completeness and tightness of contour, we obtain the scores to measure the confidence that a proposal contains a ship. Finally, the ranking proposals are obtained. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the four procedures. Our method achieves 0.70 the average best overlap (ABO) score, 0.59 the area under the curve (AUC) score and 0.85 best recall on a challenging dataset. In addition, the recall of our method on three scale subsets are all above 0.80. Experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms the approaches previously used for SAR images.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11050526","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,5]],"date-time":"2019-03-05T03:01:23Z","timestamp":1551754883000},"page":"526","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":38,"title":["Multi-Scale Proposal Generation for Ship Detection in SAR Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2827-3321","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nengyuan","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0117-9087","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zongjie","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1155-786X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zongyong","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}]},{"given":"Yiming","family":"Pi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4666-0090","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sihang","family":"Dang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Huo, W., Huang, Y., Pei, J., Zhang, Q., Gu, Q., and Yang, J. 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