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The rapid development of big data and artificial intelligence technology has facilitated the wide use of deep learning methods in SAR imagery for ship detection. Although deep learning can achieve a much better detection performance than traditional methods, it is difficult to achieve satisfying performance for small-sized ships nearshore due to the weak scattering caused by their material and simple structure. Another difficulty is that a huge amount of data needs to be manually labeled to obtain a reliable CNN model. Manual labeling each datum not only takes too much time but also requires a high degree of professional knowledge. In addition, the land and island with high backscattering often cause high false alarms for ship detection in the nearshore area. In this study, a novel method based on candidate target detection, boundary box optimization, and convolutional neural network (CNN) embedded with active learning strategy is proposed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of ship detection in nearshore areas. The candidate target detection results are obtained by global threshold segmentation. Then, the strategy of boundary box optimization is defined and applied to reduce the noise and false alarms caused by island and land targets as well as by sidelobe interference. Finally, a lightweight CNN embedded with active learning scheme is used to classify the ships using only a small labeled training set. Experimental results show that the performance of the proposed method for small-sized ship detection can achieve 97.78% accuracy and 0.96 F1-score with Sentinel-1 images in complex nearshore areas.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13173400","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,31]],"date-time":"2021-08-31T21:59:45Z","timestamp":1630447185000},"page":"3400","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Small-Sized Ship Detection Nearshore Based on Lightweight Active Learning Model with a Small Number of Labeled Data for SAR Imagery"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5608-3720","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaomeng","family":"Geng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Lingli","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7567-5510","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lei","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"given":"Pingxiang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8718-1710","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weidong","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Lee, J.-S., and Pottier, E. 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