Lei Liu

A Multi-Feature Early Fusion Network with Domain-Specific Contrastive Representation and Attention Mechanism for Side-Scan Sonar Target Detection

Accurate target detection in side-scan sonar imagery is important for marine resource investigation, underwater infrastructure inspection, and maritime security. However, Side-scan sonar images are often affected by low contrast, acoustic speckle, weak target boundaries, and cluttered seabed backgrounds, which make tar...