Research Article

Lightweight Ship Detection Methods Based on YOLOv3 and DenseNet

Table 3

The structure of the LSDM-tiny backbone network.

TypeFiltersSize/strideOutput size

Conv3233/1416416
1xConv12811/1416416
Conv3233/1416416
Avg_pool2/2208208
2xConv12811/1208208
Conv3233/1208208
Conv25611/1208208
Avg_pool2/2104104
2xConv12811/1104104
Conv3233/1104104
Conv64011/1104104
Avg_pool2/25252
2xConv12811/15252
Conv3233/15252
Avg_pool2/22626
2xConv12811/12626
Conv3233/12626
Avg_pool2/21313
2xConv12811/11313
Conv3233/11313

The units with gray color are densely connected units (their structure is shown in Figure 3).