Automatic target recognition in synthetic aperture radar imagery: A state-of-the-art review

K El-Darymli, EW Gill, P Mcguire, D Power… - IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purpose of this paper is to survey and assess the state-of-the-art in automatic target
recognition for synthetic aperture radar imagery (SAR-ATR). The aim is not to develop an …

A review of the autoencoder and its variants: A comparative perspective from target recognition in synthetic-aperture radar images

G Dong, G Liao, H Liu, G Kuang - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, unsupervised feature learning based on a neural network architecture has
become a hot new topic for research [1]-[4]. The revival of interest in such deep networks can …

FEC: A feature fusion framework for SAR target recognition based on electromagnetic scattering features and deep CNN features

J Zhang, M **ng, Y **e - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The active recognition of interesting targets has been a vital issue for synthetic aperture
radar (SAR) systems. The SAR recognition methods are mainly grouped as follows …

Domain knowledge powered two-stream deep network for few-shot SAR vehicle recognition

L Zhang, X Leng, S Feng, X Ma, K Ji… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) target recognition faces the challenge that there are very little
labeled data. Although few-shot learning methods are developed to extract more information …

Electromagnetic scattering feature (ESF) module embedded network based on ASC model for robust and interpretable SAR ATR

S Feng, K Ji, F Wang, L Zhang, X Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning has been widely used in automatic target recognition (ATR) for synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) recently. However, most of the studies are based on the network …

Automatic target recognition on synthetic aperture radar imagery: A survey

O Kechagias-Stamatis, N Aouf - IEEE Aerospace and Electronic …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic target recognition (ATR) for military applications is one of the core processes
toward enhancing intelligence and autonomously operating military platforms. Spurred by …

Feature-enhanced synthetic aperture radar image formation based on nonquadratic regularization

M Çetin, WC Karl - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We develop a method for the formation of spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
images with enhanced features. The approach is based on a regularized reconstruction of …

Explainable, physics-aware, trustworthy artificial intelligence: A paradigm shift for synthetic aperture radar

M Datcu, Z Huang, A Anghel, J Zhao… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recognition or understanding of the scenes observed with a synthetic aperture radar
(SAR) system requires a broader range of cues beyond the spatial context. These …

PAN: Part attention network integrating electromagnetic characteristics for interpretable SAR vehicle target recognition

S Feng, K Ji, F Wang, L Zhang, X Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning methods for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image automatic target
recognition (ATR) can be divided into two main types: traditional methods and deep learning …

A parametric model for synthetic aperture radar measurements

MJ Gerry, LC Potter, IJ Gupta… - IEEE transactions on …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a parametric model for radar scattering as a function of frequency and aspect
angle. The model is used for analysis of synthetic aperture radar measurements. The …