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In order to solve these problems, a novel multi-target ship detection method based on a decoupled feature pyramid algorithm (DFPN) is proposed in this paper. First, a feature decoupling module is introduced to separate ship contour features and position features from the multi-scale fused features, to overcome the problem of similar features in multi-target ships. Second, a feature pyramid structure combined with a gating attention module is constructed to improve the feature resolution of small ships by enhancing contour features and spatial semantic information. Finally, a feature pyramid-based multi-feature fusion algorithm is proposed to improve the adaptability of the network to changes in ship scale according to the contextual relationship of ship features. Experiments on the multi-target ship detection dataset showed that the proposed method increased by 6.3% mAP and 20 FPS higher than YOLOv4, 7.6% mAP and 36 FPS higher than Faster-R-CNN, 5% mAP and 36 FPS higher than Mask-R-CNN, and 4.1% mAP and 35 FPS higher than DetectoRS. The results demonstrate that the DFPN can detect multi-target ships in different scenes with high accuracy and a fast detection speed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23167027","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,8]],"date-time":"2023-08-08T12:45:53Z","timestamp":1691498753000},"page":"7027","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A Novel Decoupled Feature Pyramid Networks for Multi-Target Ship Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4936-414X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wentao","family":"Xue","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Automation, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China"}]},{"given":"Maozheng","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Automation, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China"}]},{"given":"Yincheng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Automation, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0734-9059","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hui","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Automation, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"109557","DOI":"10.1016\/j.oceaneng.2021.109557","article-title":"Modeling and application of ship density based on ship scale conversion and grid","volume":"237","author":"Yang","year":"2021","journal-title":"Ocean. 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