LW-YOLO11: A Lightweight Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection Method Based on Improved YOLO11

  • 0College of Power Engineering, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, China.

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Summary

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This study introduces an efficient YOLOv11 network module for high-precision, arbitrary-oriented ship detection in remote sensing images. The method improves accuracy and speed, outperforming existing state-of-the-art techniques.

Area Of Science

  • Computer Vision
  • Remote Sensing
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background

  • Arbitrary-oriented ship detection in remote sensing images is challenging due to high resolution, poor clarity, and scale variations.
  • Existing methods often struggle to balance high accuracy and detection speed.

Purpose Of The Study

  • To design a lightweight and efficient module for high-precision, arbitrary-oriented ship detection in remote sensing images.
  • To improve the performance of the YOLOv11 network for this specific task.

Main Methods

  • Developed a lightweight and efficient multi-scale feature dilated neck module integrated into the YOLOv11 network.
  • Utilized multi-scale dilated attention to capture semantic details.
  • Employed cross-stage partial networks for spatial-semantic information interaction.
  • Introduced the GSConv module to preserve semantic information during feature transmission.

Main Results

  • The proposed method demonstrates a lightweight structure and high accuracy.
  • Achieved superior ship detection performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
  • On the HRSC2016 dataset, improvements of 3.1% mAP@0.5 and 3.3% mAP@0.5:0.95 were observed compared to YOLOv11n.
  • On the MMShip dataset, improvements of 1.9% mAP@0.5 and 1.3% mAP@0.5:0.95 were achieved compared to YOLOv11n.

Conclusions

  • The designed module effectively enhances arbitrary-oriented ship detection in remote sensing imagery.
  • The method offers a promising solution for accurate and efficient ship detection, outperforming existing approaches.

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