Instance segmentation in SAR photos has the advantage of combining semantic segmentation with object identification. Using semantic segmentation, each pixel of the input picture is separated into logical groups according to where the ship targets are located. It offers a better description and perception of the ship targets because of the more complex interpretation technique. As the first attempt at segmenting CNN, Mask R-CNN (Lin et al., 2017b) adds a mask branch that is analogous to the classification and regression branch in Faster R-CNN in order to forecast the segmentation mask for each region of interest (RoI). Mask Scoring R-CNN (Wang et al., 2020a) utilizes the product of the classification score and the IoU score of the mask to construct the mask score in order to increase the quality of an instance. Cascade Mask R-CNN is created by combining Mask R-CNN and Cascade R-CNN (Chen et al., 2019b). Each cascade framework adds a mask branch to complete the instance segmentation task, combining the best features of the two approaches. In order to improve identification accuracy, Hybrid Task Cascade (Chen et al., 2019b) proposes integrating the concurrent structures of identification and segmentation, which leverage semantic segmentation branches to build a spatial context for the bounding box. In recent years, a number of one-stage algorithms, notably YOLACT (Bolya et al., 2019) and SOLO (Wang et al., 2020b), have appeared that correspond to object identification methods. In addition, a few approaches such as BlendMask (Chen et al., 2020) and PolarMask (Xie et al., 2020) are built on an item identification network without anchors. Due to their speed benefits, these one-stage techniques are frequently utilized in the domain of autonomous vehicle operation and facial detection. However, in some complex ship identification tasks, the identification technique can only assess a ship’s length and contour when they are important details for the particular type of ship. Improvements to the current algorithms for segmenting SAR images by an instance are not currently being made in a substantial way. The HRSID (Lin et al., 2017a) dataset was recently created for the segmentation of ship instances in SAR images.

SAR can continually monitor the planet, in contrast to optical sensors, which are inoperable at night. Because SAR images do not contain information about color, texture, shape, or other aspects, they show ships differently than optical images do. Furthermore, the SAR image has a lot of noise; as a result, identifying SAR images might be difficult for researchers without the appropriate skills. Because there is a dearth of data on tagged SAR ships as an outcome, it is more challenging to identify ships from SAR images. In order to find ships in SAR images, several deep-learning techniques have been used (Sun et al., 2021a; Liu et al., 2022; Sun et al., 2022; Yasir et al., 2022). (Fan et al. 2019b) implemented a multi-level features extractor into the Faster R-CNN for polarimetric SAR ship identification. A dense attention pyramid network was created to identify SAR ships by densely connecting each feature map to the attention convolutional module (Cui et al., 2019). For pixel-by-pixel ship identification in polarimetric SAR photos, a fully convolutional network has been created (Fan et al., 2019a). The feature pyramid structure contained a split convolution block and an embedded spatial attention block (Gao et al., 2019). Against a complex background, the feature pyramid structure can identify ship items with accuracy. Wei et al. (Wei et al., 2020) created a high-resolution feature pyramid structure for ship recognition that combined high-to-low-resolution features. The challenge of ships of various sizes and crowded berthings has been addressed by the development of a multi-scale adaptive recalibration structure (Chen et al., 2019a). A one-stage SAR target identification approach was suggested by Hou et al. (Hou et al., 2019) to address the low confidence of candidates and false positives. (Kang et al. 2017) proposed a method integrating CFAR with faster R-CNN. The object proposals produced by the faster R-CNN used in this method for extracting small objects served as the protective window of the CFAR. Zou et al. (Zou et al., 2020) integrated YOLOv3 with a generative adversarial network with a multi-scale loss term to increase the accuracy of SAR ship recognition. In order to identify and recognize ships in complex-scene SAR images, Xiong et al. (Xiong et al., 2022) suggested a lightweight model that integrated several attention mechanisms into the YOLOv5-n lightweight model.

Results from using CNN methods to identify ships in SAR imagery are impressive. However, there are still two significant areas of work that need to be addressed. One of these involves methodically combining the most recent advancements in computer vision to connect optical and SAR images. The other seeks to broaden the use of ship identification to further applications, such as instance segmentation. The two SAR image components were combined as part of this study to enhance the images’ suitability for RS applications, which is another goal of the investigation.

In addition to classifying and locating the object of interest in an image, instance segmentation also labels each pixel that is a component of the particular object instance. It enhances the identification process by associating the bounding box and mask with the object. As a result, instance segmentation will help us identify ships more accurately and will also help us deal with crowded sceneries and detect partially occluded ships. Semantic segmentation-based bottom-up and identification-based top-down techniques have been the main focus of case segmentation research for a very long time. The majority of CNN-based models and their derivation models, including RCNN, have been used for computer vision tasks such as object identification, tracking, segmentation, and classification. Faster RCNN (Chen et al., 1993) is improved by a cutting-edge technique known as Mask RCNN (He et al., 2017), which also does instance segmentation using region proposals. Additionally, it locates every instance of the target object down to the pixel level in an image.

YOLO is a single-stage object detector that can forecast a particular object in each area of the feature maps without the aid of the cascaded location classification stage. YOLO categorizes and locates the object using bounding boxes and a particular Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) network. It splits the image into an S×S; S ∈ ℤ+ grid and identifies an object as a grid cell if its focal point crosses one. A one-stage detection method called YOLO may recognize objects instantly and is very quick (Redmon et al., 2016). The YOLOV7 algorithm, which is now the most sophisticated in the YOLO series, balances the conflict between the quantity of parameters, the amount of calculation, and the performance. It also outperforms earlier iterations of the YOLO series in terms of accuracy and speed. In this paper, we used the improved Yolov7 for segmentation ship detection, and Figure 1 illustrates the outline of the method recommended in the research.

The 1024x1024 SAR images are concurrently supplied to the network feature extraction at the input end, as shown in Figure 1 . In order to successfully manage the framework training, the proper ship target labeling must be delivered. The entire deep framework is divided into three sections: the backbone structure, which is primarily used to extract features from the input picture; the feature pyramid, which is used to scale the extracted features and strengthen the expression of the target feature; and the network prediction layer, which predicts the target at three scales. Finally, post-processing techniques like maximum value suppression (NMS) are used to acquire the results of the identification output.

The two new modules that are added to the backbone structure in this research are as follows: SiLu function is used by the MP-Conv module, the E-ELAN module, and its activation function. The SiLU activation function used by the MP-Conv module is known to be more computationally efficient and effective than the traditional ReLU activation function. By incorporating the SiLU function, the MP-Conv module can better capture relevant features from SAR images, leading to improved object detection performance. Meanwhile, The MP-Conv module adopts the way of double-branch fusion to carry out super downsampling of convolution blocks, which on the one hand improves the operational efficiency of target feature extraction, on the other hand, it can fuse and enhance target feature expression. The E-ELAN module is designed to boost the capability of the algorithm to retrieve spatial information from the SAR image. This is achieved by incorporating an attention mechanism that selectively weighs the feature maps based on their relevance to the final prediction. By selectively weighing the feature maps, the E-ELAN module can help the model focus on the most relevant information, leading to improved detection and segmentation performance. In addition, the E-ELAN module can stack more blocks by considering the shortest gradient path, so as to enhance the feature extraction capability of the network without significantly increasing the complexity of the model.

The E-ELAN module is an effective network structure, as shown in Figure 2A , that enables the network to learn more features and has stronger robustness by managing the shortest and longest gradient routes. The ELAN module has two branches specifically: The first branch involves using a 1x1 convolution to adjust the number of channels. The second branch, which is more difficult, first passes through a 1x1 convolution module to alter the number of channels. Then, run four 3x3 convolution modules to extract features.

The reason for selecting the fourth B-Conv as the branch for channel concatenating in Figure 2 is that we conducted extensive experiments and found that this branch provides the best performance for ship detection. Specifically, we found that by selecting the fourth B-Conv branch, the network can effectively capture features at different scales and resolutions, which is critical for accurate ship instance segmentation detection in complex background SAR images.

Two branches of the MP-Conv (Max-Pooling Convolution) module, as seen in Figure 2B , are employed for downsampling. A Max-pool, or maximal pooling, is used on the first branch. The result of maximizing is downsampling and a 1x1 convolution to change the number of layers. The second branch initially performs a 1x1 convolution to change the number of layers before passing through a convolution block with a 3x3 convolution kernel and a 2 stride. Downsampling is another application for this convolution block. In the end, the two branches’ results are combined, the number of layers equals the number of input layers, but the spatial resolution is decreased by a factor of 2.

In summary, the proposed model structure is designed to enhance the model’s ability to extract relevant features from SAR images and to incorporate spatial information through the attention mechanism. These improvements contribute to improved object detection and segmentation performance, as demonstrated in our experiments.

Figure 3 displays the detailed structures of two enhanced modules in the neck network. Figure 3A illustrates how similar the Cat-conv module is to the E-ELAN (Encoder Enhanced Layer Aggregation Network) module, with the exception that it chooses a different number of outputs for the second branch. Three outputs are chosen by the E-ELAN module for final addition, and five channels are chosen by the Cat-conv module for contact. The Cat-conv structure utilized in this article can assist the entire pyramid framework in aggregating multi-scale features, increasing the multi-scale representation of ship targets, which have remarkable multi-scale features in SAR images.

In order to increase the receptive field more efficiently and further promote the algorithm to adapt to different resolution images, we optimize to design of the SPPSPC (Spatial Pyramid Pooling with Spatial Pyramid Convolution) module to replace the original SPP module. As seen in Figure 3B , the first branch has four branches following the Max-pool operation. Through maximal pooling, it obtains various receptive fields. These four distinct branches signify the network’s ability to process a variety of objects. That is to say, it has four receptive fields for each of its four separate scales of maximum pooling, which are utilized to differentiate between large and small targets. In this way, the SPPSPC module designed in this paper combines and optimizes the feature reorganization, which can effectively increase the accuracy of the algorithm while greatly reducing the amount of computation. The loss function used in our proposed network is a combination of three loss functions: the localization loss, the confidence loss, and the segmentation loss. The localization loss measures the difference between the predicted bounding box and the ground truth bounding box. The confidence loss measures the objectness score and the background score. Finally, the segmentation loss measures the pixel-wise difference between the predicted mask and the ground truth mask. The overall loss function is a weighted sum of these three loss functions, and it is optimized using the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm.

The first and most important stage in applying deep learning algorithms to recognize ships is the construction of a substantial and comprehensive dataset. As a result, the experiment makes use of the SSDD (Li et al., 2017) dataset, which contains 1160 SAR pictures from Sentinel-1 TerraSAR-X, and RadarSat-2 with resolutions ranging from 1m to 15m and polarizations in HV, HH, VH, and VV ( Table 1 ). Scenes of offshore ships and inshore ships are both present in the collection as background elements.

The experiments are all run on an Intel Core i9-9900KF CPU and an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 2080Ti GPU utilizing CUDA 10.1 CUDNN 7.6.5 and PyTorch 1.7.0. In each experiment, the initial learning rate is set to 0.01, the final one-cycle learning rate is set to 0.001, the momentum is set to 0.937, the optimizer weight decay is set to 0.0005, and the ship detection confidence is set to 0.7. We use the Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm for learning optimization. The ship instance segmentation task in this research also requires labeling the object instance as supervision information and sending it to the suggested deep learning framework for learning optimization, unlike the general detection task. In order to more thoroughly assess the proposed model, we separated the entire training set into the test set and the training set in a 7:3 ratio. We then compared the detection results with the true value annotation to assess how well the algorithm performed.

The traditional methods for quantitatively and thoroughly assessing the effectiveness of object detectors are the estimate metrics precision (p), recall (r), intersection of union (IoU), and average precision (AP) (Everingham et al., 2010). The expert annotation of the object’s geographic coordinates is referred to as the ground truth in supervised learning for object identification and instance segmentation. The percentage of overlap between the expected outcome and the actual result serves as a proxy for the correlation between two variables; a higher level of overlap denotes a stronger connection and a more precise prediction. Eq (1) states that the bounding box IoU is determined by the percent of overlap between the predicted bounding box and the ground truth bounding box.

The efficiency of various techniques is evaluated using a number of recognized indicators, such as AP, r, p, and IoU, and these indications are particularly specified in the following Eq (1–5) since SAR photo object identification tasks are comparable:

In object identification tasks, AP is a frequently used indicator that compares the proportion of properly recognized items to the total number of objects in the picture. Another often-used metric is r, which compares the fraction of successfully recognized items to the total number of objects in the picture. It is determined as the ratio of true positives (items that have been accurately identified) to the sum of true positives and false negatives (objects that were present in the image but not detected).

p is an indicator that calculates the proportion of successfully detected items concerning the total number of detected objects in the picture. It is calculated by dividing the number of true positives by the total number of true positives and false positives. IoU (Intersection over Union) is an indicator that calculates the ratio of the intersection of two bounding boxes to the union of two bounding boxes to determine the similarity between two bounding boxes (Bbox p and Bbox g). These indicators (AP, r, p, IoU) are extensively employed in the domain of SAR picture object identification to evaluate and compare the efficacy of various methodologies.

The rate of overlap between the ground mask and predicted mask, as shown in equation (2), determines the mask IoU in a manner similar to how segmentation precision is calculated.

The IoU may also be used to assess segmentation tasks such as object recognition in SAR images. The IoU is determined using equation (2), which is comparable to the calculation for IoU of bounding boxes that has been previously described. The IoU mask is the ratio of the predicted mask (Mask p) and the ground truth mask (Mask g) intersection to the union of the two masks. IoU is also known as the Jaccard Index in the context of image segmentation, which is a standard statistic for evaluating the performance of image segmentation algorithms. A high IoU score implies that the predicted mask and the ground truth mask have a high degree of overlap, indicating that the model is accurate.

During classification, algorithms may incorrectly recognize the surroundings and the objects. True Positives (TP), True Negatives (TN), False Positives (FP) and False Negatives (FN) are the four categorization findings, where TP stands for the number of successfully categorized positive samples, TN for correctly classed negative samples, FN for correctly classified missed positive samples, and FP for correctly classified false alarms in the background. These criteria establish p and r, as shown by equations (3, 4).

In classification tasks, the four categorization findings are used to evaluate the algorithm’s performance. Precision and recall, two often used indicators in classification tasks, are calculated using TN, FN, TP, and FP. The equation (3) is used to calculate precision, it calculates the fraction of correctly identified positive samples to the total number of positive samples. A high accuracy score suggests that the algorithm has a low number of false positives, indicating that it accurately identifies a large majority of positive samples.

The AP is established using recall and precision measurements. If the horizontal coordinate is the r value and the vertical coordinate is the precision value, as shown in equation (5), then the area under the recall-precision curve is the AP value in the Cartesian coordinate system:

The mathematical average of all categories in a dataset with multiple classes is defined as the mean AP (mAP). The AP measure is extensively used to assess the effectiveness of object identification systems. The area under the recall-precision curve, which is a plot of recall vs. accuracy, is what it is. According to equation (5), the AP value in the Cartesian coordinate system is the definite integral of the accuracy value with respect to the recall value, ranging from 0 to 1. A greater AP value suggests that the algorithm is doing well, as seen by a larger area under the recall-precision curve.

Mean Average Precision (mAP) is a statistic used to assess the effectiveness of multi-class object identification systems. It is the average of all the AP values in a dataset. It provides an overall measure of the algorithm’s performance across all classes in the dataset. A greater mAP number implies that the method performs better across all classes in the dataset.

Due to various incident angles of the radar signal, environmental conditions, polarization techniques, etc., the preprocessing SAR images include clutter noise that interferes with the feature of ships and prohibits ship identification and instance segmentation using CNN. Therefore, while building a SAR dataset for ship identification and instance segmentation, ships should be totally and precisely labeled as opposed to creating an optical RS dataset for object recognition and instance segmentation (Waqas Zamir et al., 2019). In current research work, we have established an effective and reliable algorithm for building an HR-RS dataset for CNN-based ship identification and instance segmentation. Instance segmentation’s impacts on low-resolution SAR pictures may be limited in order to escape missing annotation and incorrect annotation brought on by artificial structures that resemble ships (Wang et al., 2019), which are displayed as highlighted spots in low-resolution SAR images. High-resolution remote sensing pictures are utilized to create the dataset, and the images are sliced into 800 x 800 size segments for optimal function development, such as multi-scale training.

The results of ship identification instance segmentation for SAR images using the proposed model are shown in Figures 5 , 6 . The ground truth mask results are shown in the first row of the figure, and the projected instance outcomes are outcomes presented in the second row. Figures 5 , 6 demonstrate how our model’s output is suitable for our goal of segmenting instances in HR-RS images. As missed and false alarms increase in our model, instance segmentation is carried out on the mask branch. Finally, these synthetic targets can be detected and segmented quite well, and the segmentation outcomes produced by our model are very close to reality. With the help of our model, the instance segmentation task in HR-RS images was completed successfully.

We performed ablation experiments to assess the efficacy of various components in their suggested ship instance segmentation detection model. Table 2 shows the findings of the ablation research. As the default model, the writers used the YOLOv7 model with an input size of 640x640 pixels. The standard model had an AP of 57.8, with an AP50 of 83.7 and an AP75 of 69.5. Also we have added E-ELAN, an edge enhancement module, to the basic model in the first ablation trial. With the inclusion of E-ELAN, the AP increased to 59.4, with an AP50 of 89.6 and an AP75 of 71.9.Then we have added MP-Conv, a multi-path convolution module, to the basic model in the second ablation analysis. The inclusion of MP-Conv increased the AP to 60.7, with an AP50 of 83.9 and an AP75 of 69.8. Cat-Conv, a channel attention transfer convolution module, was added to the baseline model in the third ablation trial. Cat-Conv increased the AP to 62.3, with an AP50 of 83.1 and an AP75 of 68.3. Also we have added SPPSPC, a spatial pyramid pooling module, and convolution to the baseline model in the fourth ablation trial. SPPSPC increased the AP to 63.5, with an AP50 of 87.8 and an AP75 of 73.5. In the last, the authors added all of the previously stated modules (E-ELAN, MP-Conv, Cat-Conv, and SPPSPC) to the baseline model in the fifth and concluding ablation trial. The finished model had the greatest AP of 69.7, as well as an AP50 of 94.9 and an AP75 of 86.5. The authors discovered that incorporating all four modules greatly enhanced the baseline model’s performance, particularly in terms of accuracy and recall, showing the efficacy of their suggested model for real-time ship instance segmentation recognition in complicated backdrop SAR images.

Figures 7 and 8 show the qualitative outcomes of our model and the comparable algorithm on the SSDD and HRSID dataset, individually, to further validate the efficiency of instance segmentation and ship identification. Row 1 displays the ground-truth mask, while rows 2 to 6 display the results of Faster R-CNN, Cascade R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, and Hybrid Task Cascade, respectively. When compared to existing instance segmentation techniques, the results of our improved model can accurately recognize and separate artificial targets in a variety of scenes, as shown in row 7. The expected instance masks, in particular, precisely cover these contrived objectives. As a result of our model’s nearly complete elimination of false alarms and missed detections, our mask branch consistently accomplishes superior instance segmentation. When contrast to bounding box identification approaches like Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, Cascade Mask R-CNN, Hybrid Task Cascade, and Cascade R-CNN, instance segmentation outcomes are more closely connected to the shape of the original targets. Additionally, separate instances within the same category can be distinguished using the instance segmentation. The ships in Figures 7 , 8 stand out because to their dissimilar colors, and in addition, the suggested model, when compared to other instance segmentation approaches, has no false alarms and no missed targets detection while also producing better results for mask segmentation. The results from the HRSID and SSDD dataset show that our technique is appropriate for instance segmentation in HR-RS photos and outperforms existing instance segmentation strategies when it comes to mask segmentation.

To quantitatively assess the achievement of instance segmentation, we compared the suggested approach with other cutting-edge approaches on the HRSID and SSDD in Tables 3 and 4 . Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, Cascade R-CNN, Cascade Mask R-CNN, and Hybrid Task Cascade are some of these techniques. Tables 3 and 4 show that the suggested strategy achieves the maximum ap of 69.7%. Hybrid Task Cascade and our model outperform Faster R-CNN, Cascade R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, Cascade Mask R-CNN, and Cascade R-CNN by 6.3%, 3.2%, 4.5%, 0.8%, and 2.4%, respectively. In summary, the recommended method has superior instance segmentation effectiveness and better precise predicted instance masks on the HRSID dataset compared to other instance segmentation algorithms. The reduced parameter count, and computational expense are due to the use of the SiLU activation function, which is more computationally efficient than the traditional ReLU activation function. Additionally, the E-ELAN module selectively weighs the feature maps, further reducing the computational expense without compromising performance. The AP50 score of our model is 94.9%, which is also 10.2% higher than Faster R-CNN, 9.3% higher than Cascade R-CNN, 7.4% higher than Mask R-CNN, 8.2% higher than Cascade Mask R-CNN, and 7.3% higher than Hybrid Task Cascade. Our model achieves an AP75 score of 86.5%, which is an improvement of 14.9% over Faster R-CNN, 9.3% over Cascade R-CNN, 12.5% over Mask R-CNN, 9.7% over Cascade Mask R-CNN, and 7.2% over Hybrid Task Cascade. Mask segmentation has proven to be more precise and superior to other state-of-the-art techniques, such as segmentation utilizing the HRSID dataset. The efficacy of large medium, and small targets on the HRSID dataset has also improved, according to APS, APM, and APL.

Table 3 shows that our model achieves a 70.3% AP, which represents an improvement of 11.7% compared to Faster R-CNN, 9.2% compared to Cascade R-CNN, 13.8% compared to Mask R-CNN, 10.3% compared to Cascade Mask R-CNN, and 2.5% compared to Hybrid Task Cascade. In summary, the recommended model has superior instance segmentation effectiveness and more precise predicted instance masks when compared to previous instance segmentation algorithms on the SSDD dataset. The AP50 score of our model is also 94.7%, which is an improvement of 15.7% over Faster R-CNN, 3.3% over Cascade R-CNN, 4% over Mask R-CNN, 7.7% over Cascade Mask R-CNN, and 2% over Hybrid Task Cascade. Our model obtains an AP75 of 76.5 percent, which is an improvement of 11% over Faster R-CNN, 9.8% over Cascade R-CNN, 10.8% over Mask R-CNN, 8.8% over Cascade Mask R-CNN, and 1.6% over Hybrid Task Cascade. It has been proven that segmentation using the mask will be more accurate and superior than segmentation using other cutting-edge techniques, such as segmentation on the SSDD dataset. According to APL, APM, and APS, the HRSID dataset’s small, medium, and large target efficacy has also enhanced. We achieve the similar achievement as our model on the NWPU VHR-10 dataset under several AP indicators, and some AP indicators even outperform it.

Tables 3 , 4 show how our model performs better with fewer parameters and less computational expense. The proposed model incorporates several improvements to the YOLOv7 backbone architecture, including the addition of an ELAN-Net backbone and FPN, the SiLU activation function, and the E-ELAN module. These improvements allow the model to more effectively extract and use relevant features from SAR images, resulting in improved detection and segmentation performance. Moreover, the proposed model achieves this improved performance while using fewer parameters and less computational expense compared to other modern models, as shown in Tables 3 and 4 . The reduced parameter count and computational expense are due to the use of the SiLU activation function, which is more computationally efficient than the traditional ReLU activation function. Additionally, the E-ELAN module selectively weighs the feature maps, further reducing the computational expense without compromising performance.

Furthermore, with comparable model sizes and levels of computational complexity, our models outperform the Mask Scoring R-CNN and Mask R-CNN. Comparing our models to Hybrid Task Cascade and Cascade Mask R-CNN, we find that our models outperform them while consuming less processing power and having a smaller model size. Our network is therefore better than other modern algorithms in terms of model size and processing complexity.

In order to assess the detectors’ capacities to locate the ship in complex situations and to test their capacity to deliver adequately observable results, some complex scenarios are added to the datasets. The findings demonstrate that complex situations, like those containing nearby ships and small ships scattered in a cluster, continue to provide a challenge to detectors. The generated mask may accurately show the distribution of ships with their concrete shape pixel-by-pixel with regard to the visual identification outcomes in instance segmentation, laying the groundwork for further instance segmentation investigations. As a result, when compared to other cutting-edge techniques, our model creates instance masks that are more precise and improves the performance of instance segmentation in HR-RS images.

The object detection of RS images has been shown to have problems by CNN. YOLOv7 was actually created as the fundamental detecting network, whereas the ELAN-Net backbone network was designed for advancement. The results of our studies demonstrate that the enhanced algorithm we built would considerably improve the identification efficiency of small-scale items in RS pictures and can increase the accuracy of multi-scale object segmentation. The HRSID and SSDD datasets were used for our investigation because there are no established, open remote sensing mask datasets available, and there might only be a few different varieties. We also need to conduct further research to improve and advance the model inference speed. However, using fuzzy preprocessing techniques to images is also necessary because the processed images are frequently affected by unknown factors (Versaci et al., 2015). Our next study will focus on solving the aforementioned issues, and in order to test our new models, we will first look for and create more RS mask datasets with a wider range of object classes. Additionally, we will use more accurate and representative datasets. The next phase of our research will involve creating a lightweight framework model that will speed up inference without sacrificing identification accuracy.

In summary, our proposed model achieves better performance with fewer parameters and less computational expense by incorporating several improvements to the YOLOv7 backbone architecture, and by using the SiLU activation function and the E-ELAN module to more effectively extract and use relevant features from SAR pictures.