Efficient sea-sky line detection via lightweight segmentation and dual multi-scale fusion
摘要
Robust and real-time sea-sky line detection is crucial for maritime applications, yet challenging due to environmental complexities and edge device constraints. This paper introduces a novel framework that integrates a lightweight semantic segmentation network (DCEUnet) with a dual multi-scale fusion mechanism to achieve sub-pixel accuracy. DCEUnet, with less than 0.4M parameters, provides coarse segmentation, defining a dynamic Region of Interest (ROI). Within this ROI, a refinement module fuses multi-scale edges with a learned spatial confidence prior. Extensive evaluations on MU-SID, SMD, BD, and TMD datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, with the segmentation core achieving 98.18% IoU and the complete system operating at 20–50 FPS with median position errors of 0.86–1.87 pixels and median angular errors of 0.13–0.91 degrees. The source code and sample data are available at: https://github.com/kaibaJC/ESSLD.