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An Improved Superpixel-based CFAR Method for High-resolution SAR Image Ship Target Detection
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摘要: 合成孔径雷达(SAR)图像舰船目标检测一直受到学者广泛关注，恒虚警率(CFAR)检测算法作为雷达图像经典目标检测算法被广泛应用于SAR图像舰船目标检测中。然而经典CFAR检测性能容易受到相干斑噪声影响，基于滑窗的检测结果对滑窗的尺寸选择非常敏感，难以保证杂波背景中不存在目标像素，并且计算效率较低。针对上述问题，该文提出了一种新的基于超像素无窗快速CFAR的SAR图像舰船目标检测算法。首先，利用基于密度的快速噪声空间聚类(DBSCAN)超像素生成方法生成SAR图像的超像素。在SAR数据服从混合瑞利分布的假设下，定义了超像素相异度。然后利用超像素精确估计每个像素的杂波参数，即使在多目标情况下，也可以克服传统CFAR滑动窗口的缺点。此外，基于SAR图像变异系数，提出了一种基于变异系数的局部超像素对比度来优化CFAR检测，以此消除大量杂波虚警，如陆地区域人造目标。对5幅SAR图像的实验结果表明，与其他方法相比，该文方法对不同场景SAR图像海面舰船目标检测都十分稳健。
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关键词:
- 合成孔径雷达(SAR) /
- 恒虚警率(CFAR) /
- 变异系数 /
- 超像素 /
- 目标检测
Abstract: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image ship target detection has attracted considerable attention. As a state-of-the-art method, the Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) detection algorithm is often used in SAR image ship target detection. However, the detection performance of the classical CFAR is easily affected by speckle noise. Moreover, the detection results based on the sliding window are sensitive to the size of the sliding window. Thus, ensuring that there are no target pixels in the cluttered background is difficult, which easily leads to a high computational load. This study proposes a new ship target detection method for SAR images based on fast superpixel-based non-window CFAR to solve these problems. The superpixel generation method of Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise is used to generate superpixels for SAR images. Under the assumption that SAR data obey the Rayleigh mixture distribution, we define a superpixel dissimilarity measure. Then, the clutter parameters of each pixel are accurately estimated using superpixels, which can avoid the shortcomings of the traditional CFAR sliding window even in the case of multiple targets. A local contrast based on the Coefficient of Variation (CoV) of the SAR image is proposed to optimize the CFAR detection result, which can eliminate a large number of false alarms from man-made targets in urban areas. The experimental results of five real SAR images show that the proposed method for ship target detection in SAR images with different scenes is robust compared with other state-of-the-art methods. -
图 2 传统CFAR检测器滑动窗口示意图
Figure 2. Schematic diagram of the sliding window in the traditional CFAR detector
图 3 本文提出的基于超像素无窗快速CFAR的目标检测算法流程
Figure 3. Flow chart the proposed superpixel non-window fast CFAR strategy
图 5 超像素相异度有效性分析示意图
Figure 5. Schematic diagram of superpixel dissimilarity effectiveness analysis
图 6 实验采用的不同波段不同分辨率的SAR图像
Figure 6. The SAR images with different bands and different resolutions in the experiment
图 8 TerraSAR X波段SAR图像1检测结果图
Figure 8. The results of TerraSAR X band SAR image 1 with the proposed method
图 9 TerraSAR X波段SAR图像2检测结果图
Figure 9. The results of TerraSAR X band SAR image 2 with the proposed method
图 10 GF-3 C波段SAR图像1检测结果图
Figure 10. The results of GF-3 C band SAR image 1 with the proposed method
图 11 GF-3 C波段SAR图像2检测结果图
Figure 11. The results of GF-3 C band SAR image 2 with the proposed method
图 12 Sentinel-1A C波段SAR图像检测结果图
Figure 12. The results of Sentinel-1A C band SAR image with the proposed method
图 13 3种对比方法对TerraSAR X波段SAR图像1的检测结果
Figure 13. The detection results of TerraSAR X band SAR image 1 with three compared methods
图 14 3种对比方法对TerraSAR X波段SAR图像2的检测结果
Figure 14. The detection results of TerraSAR X band SAR image 2 with three compared methods
图 15 3种对比方法对GF-3 C波段SAR图像1的检测结果
Figure 15. The detection results of GF-3 C band SAR image 1 with three compared methods
图 16 3种对比方法对GF-3 C波段SAR图像2的检测结果
Figure 16. The detection results of GF-3 C band SAR image 2 with three compared methods
图 17 3种对比方法对Sentinel-1A C波段SAR图像的检测结果
Figure 17. The detection results of Sentinel-1A C band SAR image with three compared methods
图 18 不同方法对TerraSAR X波段SAR图像1舰船检测的ROC曲线
Figure 18. The ROC curve of ship detection in TerraSAR X band SAR image 1 by different methods
表 1 杂波超像素选取算法
Table 1. The algorithm of clutter superpixels selection
输入：SAR图像全体超像素集Rall，相异性阈值Thclu, Tlclu和Sclutter中超像素数量最大值 输出：每个潜在目标超像素的Sclutter 算法步骤： (1) 根据每个超像素的平均强度值采用K-means聚类算法将Rall分成两个子集Rtarget和Rbackground (2) for Rtarget中每一个潜在目标超像素SPi，do (3) for SPi的每一个邻接超像素${\rm{SP}}_i^k $, ${\rm{SP}}_i^k $∈Rbackground， do (4) 计算超像素相异度 Ω(SPi, ${\rm{SP}}_i^k $) (5) 相异度值大于Thclu的超像素${\rm{SP}}_i^k $被添加进杂波超像素集Sclutter (6) end (7) for Sclutter杂波超像素集中超像素$S_{{\text{clutter}}}^i$的每一个邻接超像素，do (8) 计算$S_{{\text{clutter}}}^i$与每一个邻接超像素的相异度 (9) 相异度值小于Tlclu的邻接超像素被添加进杂波超像素集Sclutter (10) end (11) 重复执行步骤(7)—步骤(10)直到满足Sclutter中超像素数量达到预设的最大值 (12) end 
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表 2 4种目标检测算法性能比较
Table 2. Quantitative comparisons of four target detection algorithms
SAR图像 双参数CFAR SP-CFAR SP-CFAR-TG 本文方法 FPR(%) TPR(%) FPR(%) TPR(%) FPR(%) TPR(%) FPR(%) TPR(%) TerraSAR X波段SAR图像1 3.19 83.41 2.95 23.64 0.54 82.85 0.31 87.93 TerraSAR X波段SAR图像2 2.26 77.23 2.59 69.62 0.98 75.41 0.27 85.57 GF-3 C波段SAR图像1 4.23 99.50 3.76 99.21 0.89 94.95 0.02 96.19 GF-3 C波段SAR图像2 4.61 99.44 0.26 96.25 0.79 95.95 0.02 98.49 Sentinel-1A C波段SAR图像 2.77 98.64 0.85 85.67 0.61 92.48 0.19 97.36
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表 3 本文方法对5幅SAR图像阴影超像素去除前后的检测性能比较
Table 3. Quantitative measures of the proposed method for five SAR images with and without shadow superpixels removal
SAR图像 进行阴影超
像素去除不进行阴影超
像素去除FPR
(%)TPR
(%)FPR
(%)TPR
(%)TerraSAR X波段SAR图像1 0.31 87.93 0.32 86.98 TerraSAR X波段SAR图像2 0.27 85.57 0.27 85.11 GF-3 C波段SAR图像1 0.02 96.19 0.03 95.62 GF-3 C波段SAR图像2 0.02 98.49 0.02 98.25 Sentinel-1A C波段SAR图像 0.19 97.36 0.19 97.36
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表 4 本文方法在不同超像素数量情况下对TerraSARX波段SAR图像1检测性能比较
Table 4. Quantitative measures of the proposed method for TerraSAR X band SAR image 1 with different superpixel numbers
超像素数量 FPR(%) TPR(%) 3000 0.33 84.36 4000 0.36 86.81 5000 0.31 87.93 6000 0.37 87.88
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表 5 4种目标检测算法时间比较
Table 5. Time costs of four ship detection algorithms
SAR图像 双参数CFAR(s) SP-CFAR(s) SP-CFAR-TG(s) 本文方法(s) TerraSAR X波段SAR图像1 113.41 41.42 18.77 10.86 TerraSAR X波段SAR图像2 1379.21 498.56 86.13 31.75 GF-3 C波段SAR图像1 1428.17 461.73 77.31 29.82 GF-3 C波段SAR图像2 351.12 98.73 43.36 22.93 Sentinel-1A C波段SAR图像 158.35 56.19 30.51 14.31
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表 6 本文方法在不同超像素数量情况下对TerraSAR X波段SAR图像1检测时间比较
Table 6. Time costs of the proposed method for TerraSAR X band SAR image 1 with different superpixel numbers
超像素数量 时间(s) 3000 8.63 4000 9.15 5000 10.86 6000 14.38
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