Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 54, Issue 1, 0110002(2025)

Topology-Based Bidirectional Radar-Optical Fusion Algorithm for USV Detection at Sea

Hao TANG1... Xuan PENG2, Wei XIONG1,*, Yaqi CUI1, Jianqiu HU3 and Huiyuan XING4 |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Information Fusion,Naval Aviation University,Yantai 264001,China
  • 2The People's Liberation Army 31092 Troops,Beijing 100000,China
  • 3Jiangsu Automation Research Institute,Lianyungang 222061,China
  • 4The People's Liberation Army 72506 Troops,Shijiazhuang 050000,China
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    Figures & Tables(19)
    Radar and camera carried by USV
    Data set visualization
    Radar camera topology secondary fusion algorithm framework
    RDC-YOLOv7-tiny model structure
    Comparative experiment of Loss and mAP@0.5
    Comparison of fitting effect between PROSAC algorithm and least squares algorithm
    Coarse correlation gate
    Triangular topology
    Polygon topology
    Fusion of YOLO detection boxes
    Fusion of radar point
    • Table 1. Experimental configuration

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      Table 1. Experimental configuration

      ConfigurationParameter
      System environmentWindows 11
      GPURTX 406 0
      Accelerated environmentCUDA 12.1
      LibrariesPyTorch 1.11.0
      LanguagePython 3.8
    • Table 2. Detailed parameters for different categories

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      Table 2. Detailed parameters for different categories

      NetTarget categoryP/%R/%mAP@0.5/%Map comparison/%Speed(ms)/fps
      YOLOv7-tinyAll9186.488.3-Base6.5/153.8
      Experimental_Ship95.4199.5
      Cargo93.192.696.1
      Floater73.670.869.3
      Crane_Ship94.697.199.3
      Speedboat8471.474.1
      Fishing_Boat186.491.5
      RDC-YOLOv7-tinyAll96.190.193↑4.77.3/140
      Experimental_Ship93199.6↑0.1
      Cargo96.795.798.2↑2.1
      Floater162.978.3↑9
      Crane_Ship99199.6↑0.3
      Speedboat94.782.182.8↑8.7
      Fishing_Boat93.2199.5↑8
    • Table 3. Comparison of YOLO lightweight models

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      Table 3. Comparison of YOLO lightweight models

      ModelmAP@0.5/%Speed(ms)/FPSMap Comparison/%FPS Comparison
      RDC-YOLOv7-tiny937.3/140-Base-Base
      YOLOv8n93.78.2/122.5↑0.7↓17.5
      YOLOv9s94.212.6/79.4↑1.2↓60.6
    • Table 4. Control-experiment

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      Table 4. Control-experiment

      Scale factors=1s=1.5s=2s=3s=4s=5s=6
      Time/s0.070.130.220.460.540.740.97
      Omission factor/%26.310.500000
    • Table 5. Algorithm execution time comparison

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      Table 5. Algorithm execution time comparison

      TimeNo coarse correlation gate/sCoarse correlation gate/sReduction ratio/%Average reduction ratio/%
      Time 12.5960.304↓88.29↓88.37
      Time 20.8730.093↓89.35
      Time 31.3880.174↓87.46
    • Table 6. Scene 1

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      Table 6. Scene 1

      IoU fusionComprehensive similarity fusionPROSAC straight line fittingCoarse correlation gateBidirectional fusion of unfused dataAccuracy/%Comparison/%
      85.92-base
      90.76↑4.84
      93.55↑7.63
      93.49↑7.57
      94.21↑8.29
    • Table 7. Scene 2

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      Table 7. Scene 2

      IoU fusionComprehensive similarity fusionPROSAC straight line fittingCoarse correlation gateBidirectional fusion of unfused dataAccuracy/%Comparison/%
      80.38-base
      87.32↑6.94
      90.03↑9.68
      89.97↑9.59
      90.52↑10.14
    • Table 8. Scene 3

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      Table 8. Scene 3

      IoU fusionComprehensive similarity fusionPROSAC straight line fittingCoarse correlation gateBidirectional fusion of unfused dataAccuracy/%Comparison/%
      90.42base
      94.26↑3.84
      95.89↑5.47
      95.89↑5.47
      96.23↑5.81
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    Hao TANG, Xuan PENG, Wei XIONG, Yaqi CUI, Jianqiu HU, Huiyuan XING. Topology-Based Bidirectional Radar-Optical Fusion Algorithm for USV Detection at Sea[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2025, 54(1): 0110002

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    Received: Jun. 25, 2024

    Accepted: Sep. 12, 2024

    Published Online: Mar. 5, 2025

    The Author Email: XIONG Wei (xiongwei@csif.org.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20255401.0110002

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