A Method to Recognize Ship Target in SAR Imagery Using an AAM

This paper presents a new method to recognize ship target in SAR imagery using an active appearance model (AAM). The AAM can describe both shape and grey-level appearance of target which can present the target more accurately. The AAM is used as a basis for ship targets recognition. The whole method contains two steps: building an AAM firstly, then searching the target use it. The more detailed realization is discussed in this paper. It obtains good results for different ship by this method. An identification rate of 90% was achieved. The experiments prove that AAM is good in ship target recognition in SAR imagery .