ShipPointYOLO: Ship Detection and Description based on Point Coordinates in SAR Images

A point detection (and description) method based on a modified You Only Look Once (YOLO) model, designed to detect vessels in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite images.

1. Setup

1.1 Data sets

Instructions on how to install datasets used in the experiments are found in the datasets/README.md file.

1.2 Build wheel module for yolo_lib

• Install wheel-related packages

pip install wheel
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install check-wheel-contents

• Build python wheel file Run the following command. Output is found in dist/

python setup.py bdist_wheel