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Most of the existing methods are presented to predict the signatures of desired targets in an underwater context but ignore the depth information which is position-sensitive and contributes significantly to distinguishing the background and target pixels. So as to take full advantage of the depth information, in this paper a self-improving framework is proposed to perform joint depth estimation and underwater target detection, which exploits the depth information and detection results to alternately boost the final detection performance. However, it is difficult to calculate depth information under the interference of a water environment. To address this dilemma, the proposed framework, named self-improving underwater target detection framework (SUTDF), employs the spectral and spatial contextual information to pick out target-associated pixels as the guidance dataset for depth estimation work. Considering the incompleteness of the guidance dataset, an expectation-maximum liked updating scheme has also been developed to iteratively excavate the statistical and structural information from input HSI for further improving the diversity of the guidance dataset. During each updating epoch, the calculated depth information is used to yield a more diversified dataset for the target detection network, leading to a more accurate detection result. Meanwhile, the detection result will in turn contribute in detecting more target-associated pixels as the supplement for the guidance dataset, eventually promoting the capacity of the depth estimation network. With this specific self-improving framework, we can provide a more precise detection result for a hyperspectral UTD task. Qualitative and quantitative illustrations verify the effectiveness and efficiency of SUTDF in comparison with state-of-the-art underwater target detection methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13091721","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,29]],"date-time":"2021-04-29T10:30:41Z","timestamp":1619692241000},"page":"1721","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["A Self-Improving Framework for Joint Depth Estimation and Underwater Target Detection from Hyperspectral Imagery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2560-8157","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiahao","family":"Qi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Automatic Target Recognition, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8746-2141","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pengcheng","family":"Wan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan 243032, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7999-3014","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhiqiang","family":"Gong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Innovation Institute of Defense Technology, Chinese Academy of Military Science, Beijing 110000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0082-462X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wei","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Automatic Target Recognition, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"},{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan 243032, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Aihuan","family":"Yao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Automatic Target Recognition, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8686-3928","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xingyue","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Automatic Target Recognition, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5071-5686","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ping","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Automatic Target Recognition, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Zhang, G., Zhao, S., Li, W., Du, Q., Ran, Q., and Tao, R. 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