Full-Scale Aggregated MobileUNet: An Improved U-Net Architecture for SAR Oil Spill Detection

Author:

Chen Yi-Ting1ORCID,Chang Lena23,Wang Jung-Hua14

Affiliation:

1. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202301, Taiwan

2. Department of Communications, Navigation and Control Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202301, Taiwan

3. The Intelligent Maritime Research Center (IMRC), National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202301, Taiwan

4. Department of Electrical Engineering, AI Research Center, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202301, Taiwan

Abstract

Oil spills are a major threat to marine and coastal environments. Their unique radar backscatter intensity can be captured by synthetic aperture radar (SAR), resulting in dark regions in the images. However, many marine phenomena can lead to erroneous detections of oil spills. In addition, SAR images of the ocean include multiple targets, such as sea surface, land, ships, and oil spills and their look-alikes. The training of a multi-category classifier will encounter significant challenges due to the inherent class imbalance. Addressing this issue requires extracting target features more effectively. In this study, a lightweight U-Net-based model, Full-Scale Aggregated MobileUNet (FA-MobileUNet), was proposed to improve the detection performance for oil spills using SAR images. First, a lightweight MobileNetv3 model was used as the backbone of the U-Net encoder for feature extraction. Next, atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) and a convolutional block attention module (CBAM) were used to improve the capacity of the network to extract multi-scale features and to increase the speed of module calculation. Finally, full-scale features from the encoder were aggregated to enhance the network’s competence in extracting features. The proposed modified network enhanced the extraction and integration of features at different scales to improve the accuracy of detecting diverse marine targets. The experimental results showed that the mean intersection over union (mIoU) of the proposed model reached more than 80% for the detection of five types of marine targets including sea surface, land, ships, and oil spills and their look-alikes. In addition, the IoU of the proposed model reached 75.85 and 72.67% for oil spill and look-alike detection, which was 18.94% and 25.55% higher than that of the original U-Net model, respectively. Compared with other segmentation models, the proposed network can more accurately classify the black regions in SAR images into oil spills and their look-alikes. Furthermore, the detection performance and computational efficiency of the proposed model were also validated against other semantic segmentation models.

Funder

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

Publisher

MDPI AG

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