SCTD

Dataset Name: Sonar Common Target Detection Dataset (SCTD) 1.0

Format: Pascal VOC with xml annotations. (voc2coco.py is also available)

Authors: Dr. Peng Zhang, Dr. Mingqiang Ning, Zhisheng Zhang, Han Li, Yan Zhou, Prof. Yue Fan, Prof. Dandan Liu

This project is currently part of work in a manusript submitted to IEEE Transactions Geoscience and Remote Sensing. If you have any quenstion during utilization, please contact us.

The baseline code and weight has been submitted to Dr Peng Zhang's repository

Citation

If you find this dataset helpful, please kindly cite:

• P. Zhang, J. Tang, H. Zhong, M. Ning, D. Liu and K. Wu, "Self-Trained Target Detection of Radar and Sonar Images Using Automatic Deep Learning," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-14, 2022, Art no. 4701914, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3096011.

  @article{AutoDL detector,
    title   = {Self-trained Target Detection of Radar and Sonar Images using Automatic Deep Learning},
    author  = {Peng Zhang, Jinsong Tang, Heping Zhong, Mingqiang Ning, Dandan Liu and Ke Wu},
    journal= {IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing},
    year={2021}
  }
  

• M. Ning, J. Tang, H. Wu, H. Zhong and M. Ma, "An Efficient Subswath-Subband Chirp Z-Transform Algorithm for Multiple-Receiver SAS Considering the Differential Range Curvature," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2025.3550427.

  @ARTICLE{10922190,
    title={An Efficient Subswath-Subband Chirp Z-Transform Algorithm for Multiple-Receiver SAS Considering the Differential Range Curvature}, 
    author={Ning, Mingqiang and Tang, Jinsong and Wu, Haoran and Zhong, Heping and Ma, Mengbo},
    journal={IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing}, 
    year={2025},
    doi={10.1109/TGRS.2025.3550427}
  }
  

Acknowledgement

Our financial support is from Prof. Jinsong Tang, Prof. Heping Zhong, Zhejiang Yusheng Ocean Technology Co., Ltd

SCTD Community

SCTD serves for sonar image target recognition researchs of scientists from Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai University, Hohai University, Jiangxi University of Technology, et al.