Multiple Features Learning For Ship Classification In Optical Imagery

Keywords

Decision-level fusion; Feature-level fusion; Multiple features learning; Optical imagery; Ship classification

Abstract

The sea surface vessel/ship classification is a challenging problem with enormous implications to the world’s global supply chain and militaries. The problem is similar to other well-studied problems in object recognition such as face recognition. However, it is more complex since ships’ appearance is easily affected by external factors such as lighting or weather conditions, viewing geometry and sea state. The large within-class variations in some vessels also make ship classification more complicated and challenging. In this paper, we propose an effective multiple features learning (MFL) framework for ship classification, which contains three types of features: Gabor-based multi-scale completed local binary patterns (MS-CLBP), patch-based MS-CLBP and Fisher vector, and combination of Bag of visual words (BOVW) and spatial pyramid matching (SPM). After multiple feature learning, feature-level fusion and decision-level fusion are both investigated for final classification. In the proposed framework, typical support vector machine (SVM) classifier is employed to provide posterior-probability estimation. Experimental results on remote sensing ship image datasets demonstrate that the proposed approach shows a consistent improvement on performance when compared to some state-of-the-art methods.

Publication Date

6-1-2018

Publication Title

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volume

77

Issue

11

Number of Pages

13363-13389

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4952-y

Socpus ID

85021772381 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85021772381

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