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In this article, we propose an end-to-end lightweight SAR target detection algorithm, multi-level Laplacian pyramid denoising network (LPDNet). Firstly, an intelligent denoising method based on the multi-level Laplacian transform is proposed. Through Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based threshold suppression, the denoising becomes adaptive to every SAR image via back-propagation and makes the denoising processing supervised. Secondly, channel modeling is proposed to combine the spatial domain and frequency domain information. Multi-dimensional information enhances the detection effect. Thirdly, the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) is introduced into the feature fusion module of the basic framework (Yolox-tiny) so that different weights are given to each pixel of the feature map to highlight the effective features. Experiments on SSDD and AIR SARShip-1.0 demonstrate that the proposed method achieves 97.14% AP with a speed of 24.68FPS and 92.19% AP with a speed of 23.42FPS, respectively, with only 5.1 M parameters, which verifies the accuracy, efficiency, and lightweight of the proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23136084","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,3]],"date-time":"2023-07-03T00:53:16Z","timestamp":1688345596000},"page":"6084","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["LPDNet: A Lightweight Network for SAR Ship Detection Based on Multi-Level Laplacian Denoising"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Congxia","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiongjun","family":"Fu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Tangshan Research Institute of BIT, Tangshan 063000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jian","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Cheng","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5142-7181","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hao","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"431","DOI":"10.1109\/LGRS.2019.2923403","article-title":"A Novel Polarimetric SAR Classification Method Integrating Pixel-Based and Patch-Based Classification","volume":"17","author":"Yang","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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