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The detection of ship targets often requires the target to be complete, and the overall features of the ship are used for detection and recognition. When the ship target is obscured by clouds, or the contrast between the ship target and the sea-clutter background is low, there may be incomplete targets, which reduce the effectiveness of recognition. Here, we propose a new method combining constant false alarm rate (CFAR) and superpixel segmentation with feature points (SFCFAR) to solve the above problems. Our newly developed SFCFAR utilizes superpixel segmentation to divide large scenes into many small regions which include target regions and background regions. In remote sensing images, the target occupies a small proportion of pixels in the entire image. In our method, we use superpixel segmentation to divide remote sensing images into meaningful blocks. The target regions are identified using the characteristics of clusters of ship texture features and the texture differences between the target and background regions. This step not only detects the ship target quickly, but also detects ships with low contrast and under cloud cover. In optical remote sensing, ships at sea under thin clouds are not common in practice, and the sample size generated is relatively small, so this problem is not applicable to deep learning algorithms for training, while the SFCFAR algorithm does not require data training to complete the detection task. Experiments show that the proposed SFCFAR algorithm enhances the detection of obscured ship targets under clouds and low-contrast targets in thin fog, compared with traditional target detection methods and as deep learning algorithms, further complementing existing ship detection methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14153731","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,5]],"date-time":"2022-08-05T02:12:39Z","timestamp":1659665559000},"page":"3731","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["A Novel Method of Ship Detection under Cloud Interference for Optical Remote Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Wensheng","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Modern Measurement & Control Technology, Ministry of Education, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinbo","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wu","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Artificial Intelligence Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Min","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Modern Measurement & Control Technology, Ministry of Education, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8458","DOI":"10.1109\/JSTARS.2021.3104230","article-title":"ShipRSImageNet: A Large-Scale Fine-Grained Dataset for Ship Detection in High-Resolution Optical Remote Sensing Images","volume":"14","author":"Zhang","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE J. 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