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However, they cannot effectively detect nonlinear wake and weak wake under high sea state conditions, whereas the deep-learning-based detection method could play to its strengths in this respect. Due to the lack of sufficient measured SAR images of ship wake to meet the training requirement for deep learning method, this paper explores the method to detect the nonlinear ship wake by combining electromagnetic scattering model with deep learning technique. The composite scene model of the sea surface and its wake is established first, then the facet scattering distribution of the ship wake and the sea background is analyzed with the help of the electromagnetic scattering model, and the simulation of the wake SAR images under the sea background is finally accomplished based on the modulation model. Combined with the simulation results and measured wake SAR images, the sample database is constructed. The You Only Look Once Version five algorithm (YOLOv5) based on deep learning techniques is applied to detect the wake target in complex conditions such as different sea states, multiple targets, curvilinear wakes, and weak wakes. The result show that the YOLOv5 leads to an obvious higher detection efficiency with satisfactory accuracy. Moreover, the comparison between YOLOv5 and the traditional Radon transform method for detecting nonlinear wakes in a strong noise background shows that the proposed method is better than the traditional object detection model. Thus, the proposed scheme would be a practical tool to deal with the detection of nonlinear ship wake and weak wake in complex scenarios, which will be helpful to the further remote sensing investigation of the ship.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14225788","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,17]],"date-time":"2022-11-17T03:27:44Z","timestamp":1668655664000},"page":"5788","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Nonlinear Ship Wake Detection in SAR Images Based on Electromagnetic Scattering Model and YOLOv5"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Hui","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3920-0352","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ding","family":"Nie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yacong","family":"Zuo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lu","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9992-0007","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Min","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Chen, K.S. 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