Abstract:Aiming at the problem of oil spill detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, four convolutional neural network models are used to study and experiment on oil spill detection in SAR images, including U-Net model, ResNet18-UNet model, ResNet34-UNet model, and ResNet50-UNet model. A more suitable mode for oil spill detection was selected for this research and experiment. By using the four convolutional neural network models for SAR image sea surface oil spill detection on the same dataset, the performance differences and oil spill detection effects among different convolutional neural network models were compared and analyzed. The experimental results show that for this oil spill detection using the same SAR dataset, the performance of the ResNet18-UNet model has been optimized on the basis of the U-Net model, and compared with the other two ResNet-UNet models, the ResNet18-UNet model has the highest performance and the best oil spill detection effect for the SAR dataset used in this study, achieving higher detection accuracy and efficiency.