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To overcome these challenges, a ship detection method based on multiscale feature extraction and lightweight CNN is proposed. Firstly, the candidate-region extraction method, based on a multiscale model, can cover the potential targets under different backgrounds accurately. Secondly, the multiple feature fusion method is employed to achieve ship classification, in which, Fourier global spectrum features are applied to discriminate between targets and simple interference, and the targets in complex interference scenarios are further distinguished by using lightweight CNN. Thirdly, the cascade classifier training algorithm and an improved non-maximum suppression method are used to minimise the classification error rate and maximise generalisation, which can achieve final-target confirmation. Experimental results validate our method, showing that it significantly outperforms the available alternatives, reducing the model size by up to 2.17 times while improving detection performance be improved by up to 5.5% in multi-interference scenarios. Furthermore, the robustness ability was verified by three indicators, among which the F-measure score and true\u2013false-positive rate can increase by up to 5.8% and 4.7% respectively, while the mean error rate can decrease by up to 38.2%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22031226","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,6]],"date-time":"2022-02-06T20:40:18Z","timestamp":1644180018000},"page":"1226","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Robust Ship Detection in Infrared Images through Multiscale Feature Extraction and Lightweight CNN"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3814-3704","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rui","family":"Miao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Media, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hongxu","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Media, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fangzheng","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Media, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"50839","DOI":"10.1109\/ACCESS.2018.2869884","article-title":"Position Detection and Direction Prediction for Arbitrary-Oriented Ships via Multiscale Rotation Region Convolutional Neural Network","volume":"6","author":"Yang","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE Access"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Zhang, Y., Guo, L., Wang, Z., Yu, Y., Liu, X., and Xu, F. 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