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Due to the influence of speckle noise and the high similarity between onshore buildings and inshore ships, the traditional methods are unable to achieve effective detection for inshore ships. To improve the detection performance of inshore ships, we propose a novel saliency enhancement algorithm based on the difference of anisotropic pyramid (DoAP). Considering the limitations of IoU in small-target detection, we design a detection framework based on the proposed Bhattacharyya-like distance (BLD). First, the anisotropic pyramid of the SAR image is constructed by a bilateral filter (BF). Then, the differences between the finest two scales and the coarsest two scales are used to generate the saliency map, which can be used to enhance ship pixels and suppress background clutter. Finally, the BLD is used to replace IoU in label assignment and non-maximum suppression to overcome the limitations of IoU for small-target detection. We embed the DoAP into the BLD-based detection framework to detect inshore ships in large-scale SAR images. The experimental results on the LS-SSDD-v1.0 dataset indicate that the proposed method outperforms the basic state-of-the-art detection methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14122832","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,13]],"date-time":"2022-06-13T22:00:38Z","timestamp":1655157638000},"page":"2832","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Inshore Ship Detection in Large-Scale SAR Images Based on Saliency Enhancement and Bhattacharyya-like Distance"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2410-9778","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianda","family":"Cheng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0152-6621","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Deliang","family":"Xiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China"},{"name":"Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6585-5056","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiaxin","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China"}]},{"given":"Yanpeng","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Linyi University, Linyi 276000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5025-8200","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dongdong","family":"Guan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"High-Tech Institute of Xi\u2019an, Xi\u2019an 710000, China"}]},{"given":"Bin","family":"Du","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1463","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2018.2866934","article-title":"Segmentation of marine SAR images by sublook analysis and application to sea traffic monitoring","volume":"57","author":"Renga","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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