Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 6, 250048(2025)

Ship fine-grained classification of ship targets driven by data and knowledge

Jiasheng Guo1, Jun Liu1、*, Lan He1, Pan Jiang1, Anke Xue1, Yu Gu1, Li Han2, and Jie Zhang2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science on Communication Information Transmission and Fusion Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China
  • 2China People's Liberation Army 91039 troops, Beijing 102401, China
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    Figures & Tables(12)
    Example images from the FGSCR-9 dataset
    Example of ship structure annotation
    Overall architecture of DKSCN
    Visualization results of selected channels in the shared feature map
    Examples of ship graph structures and adjacency matrix constructions. (a) Visualization of detection boxes for Arleigh Burke-class destroyer; (b) Visualization of detection boxes for Ticonderoga-class cruiser; (c) Graph structure and adjacency matrix for Arleigh Burke-class destroyer; (d) Graph structure and adjacency matrix for Ticonderoga-class cruiser
    Schematic diagram of graph convolution feature propagation integrating residual connections
    Illustration of a recognition result case
    • Table 1. Forward propagation steps of graph convolutional network

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      Table 1. Forward propagation steps of graph convolutional network

      StepOperation
      1GCNConv1
      2ReLU
      3GCNConv2
      4MeanPooling
      5Softmax
    • Table 2. FGSCR-9 dataset division and class distribution

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      Table 2. FGSCR-9 dataset division and class distribution

      No.NameTrainValidationTest
      1Nimitz-class aircraft carrier8426281
      2Arleigh Burke-class destroyer8332220
      3Ticonderoga-class cruiser4515130
      4Type 45 destroyer358101
      5Osumi-class amphibious ship27382
      6Independence-class littoral combat ship4910143
      7Medical ship577145
      8San Antonio-class amphibious ship6313166
      9Wasp-class amphibious assault ship22390
    • Table 3. Comparison of accuracy of different models in ship fine-grained classification tasks

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      Table 3. Comparison of accuracy of different models in ship fine-grained classification tasks

      ModelAccuracy/%
      ResNet5085.61
      VGG1690.01
      VIT90.68
      B-CNN92.49
      RA-CNN94.48
      DKSCN97.28
    • Table 4. Comparison of accuracy and recall rates of different models in ship classification tasks

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      Table 4. Comparison of accuracy and recall rates of different models in ship classification tasks

      ShipFRCNN26FRCNN9DKSCN
      Pr/%Re/%Pr/%Re/%Pr/%Re/%
      Nimitz81.21100.0083.38100.0097.91100.00
      Arleigh Burke71.0598.1873.0899.1393.4597.27
      Ticonderoga69.6883.0874.8386.9291.8787.60
      Type4599.0199.0198.1097.17100.0097.03
      Osumi98.80100.0098.75100.0098.80100.00
      Independence87.73100.0094.44100.00100.0099.30
      Medical ship70.3097.9375.3899.34100.00100.00
      San Antonio81.4197.5984.1396.3697.6098.19
      Wasp84.1694.4483.1898.89100.0093.22
    • Table 5. List of detected object location and category information

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      Table 5. List of detected object location and category information

      Index (category)BBox (x1,y1,x2,y2)ConfidenceClass probabilities (first 7 dimensions)
      1 (Arleigh Burke)[181.51, 13.52, 288.78, 321.61]0.68[0.04481, 0.0, 0.00005, 0.00006, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0…]
      2 (Ticonderoga cruiser)[180.88, 10.81, 290.45, 320.48]0.77[0.00782, 0.0, 0.00023, 0.00030, 0.00001, 0.0, 0.0…]
      3 (Bow2)[242.10, 15.85, 277.29, 61.80]0.77[0.09948, 0.00031, 0.0, 0.0, 0.1063, 0.00001, 0.0…]
      4 (VLS_front)[251.40, 84.27, 264.39, 99.47]0.52[0.44401, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.00269, 0.52351, 0.01966…]
      5 (VLS_rear)[206.43, 221.27, 221.18, 239.50]0.73[0.09814, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.00002, 0.73007, 0.17059…]
      5 (VLS_rear)[0.05, 150.56, 17.60, 194.93]0.63[0.25756, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.63424, 0.00803...]
      6 (Helideck)[183.44, 257.51, 226.35, 306.75]0.91[0.07547, 0.00001, 0.0, 0.0, 0.00117, 0.00001, 0.00001…]
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    Jiasheng Guo, Jun Liu, Lan He, Pan Jiang, Anke Xue, Yu Gu, Li Han, Jie Zhang. Ship fine-grained classification of ship targets driven by data and knowledge[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2025, 52(6): 250048

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    Category: Article

    Received: Feb. 22, 2025

    Accepted: May. 22, 2025

    Published Online: Sep. 3, 2025

    The Author Email: Jun Liu (刘俊)

    DOI:10.12086/oee.2025.250048

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