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At the same time, the existing SAR ship detection models in the application have a huge structure and require high computing resources. To solve these problems, we propose a SAR ship detection model named mask efficient adaptive network (MEA-Net), which is lightweight and high-accuracy for imbalanced datasets. Specifically, we propose the following three innovative modules. Firstly, we propose a mask data balance augmentation (MDBA) method, which solves the imbalance of sample data between inshore and offshore ship targets by combining mathematical morphological processing and ship label data to greatly improve the ability of the model to detect inshore ship targets. Secondly, we propose an efficient attention mechanism (EAM), which effectively integrates channel features and spatial features through one-dimensional convolution and two-dimensional convolution, to improve the feature extraction ability of the model for SAR ship targets. Thirdly, we propose an adaptive receptive field block (ARFB), which can achieve more effective multi-scale detection by establishing the mapping relationship between the size of the convolution kernel and the channel of feature map, to improve the detection ability of the model for ship targets of different sizes. Finally, MEA-Net is deployed on the Jeston Nano edge computing device of the 2 GB version. We conducted experimental validation on the SSDD and HRSID datasets. Compared with the baseline, the AP of MEA-Net increased by 2.18% on the SSDD dataset and 3.64% on the HRSID dataset. The FLOPs and model parameters of MEA-Net were only 2.80 G and 0.96 M, respectively. In addition, the FPS reached 6.31 on the Jeston Nano, which has broad application prospects.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14184438","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,8]],"date-time":"2022-09-08T04:18:32Z","timestamp":1662610712000},"page":"4438","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["MEA-Net: A Lightweight SAR Ship Detection Model for Imbalanced Datasets"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1594-6213","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yiyu","family":"Guo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023, China"}]},{"given":"Luoyu","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Two-Stage Cross-Modality Transfer Learning Method for Military-Civilian SAR Ship Recognition","volume":"19","author":"Song","year":"2022","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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