Product Dictionary Learning-Based SAR Target Configuration Recognition

Liu, Ming; Chen, Shichao; Lu, Fugang; Liu, Junsheng

doi:10.1155/2020/9704829

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“…The application of SAR images in the field of marine monitoring, geological exploration, etc. has been promoted [ 2 , 3 , 4 ]. In contrast to traditional SAR image interpretability methods, deep learning can extract inherent patterns from the large amounts of data.…”

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The Process Analysis Method of SAR Target Recognition in Pre-Trained CNN Models

Zheng

Hao

et al. 2023

Sensors

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Recently, attention has been paid to the convolutional neural network (CNN) based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) target recognition method. Because of its advantages of automatic feature extraction and the preservation of translation invariance, the recognition accuracies are stronger than traditional methods. However, similar to other deep learning models, CNN is a “black-box” model, whose working process is vague. It is difficult to locate the decision reasons. Because of this, we focus on the process analysis of a pre-trained CNN model. The role of the processing to feature extraction and final recognition decision is discussed. The discussed components of CNN models are convolution, activation function, and full connection. Here, the convolution processing can be deemed as image filtering. The activation function provides a nonlinear element of processing. Moreover, the fully connected layers can also further extract features. In the experiment, four classical CNN models, i.e., AlexNet, VGG16, GoogLeNet, and ResNet-50, are trained by public MSTAR data, which can realize ten-category SAR target recognition. These pre-trained CNN models are processing objects of the proposed process analysis method. After the analysis, the content of the SAR image target features concerned by these pre-trained CNN models is further clarified. In summary, we provide a paradigm to process the analysis of pre-trained CNN models used for SAR target recognition in this paper. To some degree, the adaptability of these models to SAR images is verified.

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