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Maritime objects frequently exhibit low-quality and insufficient feature information, particularly in complex maritime environments characterized by challenges such as small objects, waves, and reflections. This situation poses significant challenges to the development of reliable object detection including the strategies of loss function and the feature understanding capabilities in common YOLOv8 (You Only Look Once) detectors. Furthermore, the widespread adoption and unmanned operation of intelligent ships have generated increasing demands on the computational efficiency and cost of object detection hardware, necessitating the development of more lightweight network architectures. This study proposes the EL-YOLO (Efficient Lightweight You Only Look Once) algorithm based on YOLOv8, designed specifically for intelligent ship object detection. EL-YOLO incorporates novel features, including adequate wise IoU (AWIoU) for improved bounding box regression, shortcut multi-fuse neck (SMFN) for a comprehensive analysis of features, and greedy-driven filter pruning (GDFP) to achieve a streamlined and lightweight network design. The findings of this study demonstrate notable advancements in both detection accuracy and lightweight characteristics across diverse maritime scenarios. EL-YOLO exhibits superior performance in intelligent ship object detection using RGB cameras, showcasing a significant improvement compared to standard YOLOv8 models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a comprehensive summary of Intelligent Ship Marine Object Detection (ISMOD) based on the RGB Camera. Marine object detection plays a pivotal role in enabling intelligent ships to acquire crucial data and security assurances for autonomous navigation. Among the various detection sensors, the RGB Camera is an informative and cost‐effective tool with a wide range of civil applications. In the beginning, the ISMOD metrics based on the RGB camera is analyzed from three significant aspects, namely accuracy, speed, and robustness. Subsequently, the latest research status and comparative overview are presented, encompassing three mainstream detection methods: traditional detection, deep learning detection, and sensor fusion detection. Finally, the existing challenges of ISMOD are discussed and future development trends are recommended. The results demonstrate that forthcoming development will predominantly concentrate on deep learning approaches, complemented by other techniques. It is imperative to advance detection performance in domains such as deep fusion, multi‐feature extraction, multi‐fusion technology, and lightweight detection architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]