Multi-Stage Marine Ship Recognition Based on Stackable Residual Network.

Marine ship recognition has always been an important research field. The ships can be usually recognized by analyzing their attribute characteristics. However, in the actual process of recognition, many ship recognition methods using a single model cannot meet the requirements of this task due to the complexity of ship types, diversity of interference factors and different information obtained from distance differences. Therefore, we propose a multi-stage ship recognition scheme. First, the single radiation emitter feature recognition network model is designed for long-distance recognition. Second, the fusion feature network model for short distance recognition. The proposed network is mainly constructed with the residual units, which not only simplify the training of deep networks and facilitate the spread of information, but also can solve the vanishing gradient and exploding gradient problem. The simulation experimental results show that the proposed network model has better performance than typical methods and has great potential in applications.