scholarly journals A Lightweight Fully Convolutional Neural Network for SAR Automatic Target Recognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 3029
Author(s):  
Jimin Yu ◽  
Guangyu Zhou ◽  
Shangbo Zhou ◽  
Jiajun Yin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Target Recognition ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Automatic Target Recognition ◽  
Attention Mechanism ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Sar Images ◽  
Generalization Performance ◽  
Residual Block

Automatic target recognition (ATR) in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has been widely used in civilian and military fields. Traditional model-based methods and template matching methods do not work well under extended operating conditions (EOCs), such as depression angle variant, configuration variant, and noise corruption. To improve the recognition performance, methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been introduced to solve such problems and have shown outstanding performance. However, most of these methods rely on continuously increasing the width and depth of networks. This adds a large number of parameters and computational overhead, which is not conducive to deployment on edge devices. To solve these problems, a novel lightweight fully convolutional neural network based on Channel-Attention mechanism, Channel-Shuffle mechanism, and Inverted-Residual block, namely the ASIR-Net, is proposed in this paper. Specifically, we deploy Inverted-Residual blocks to extract features in high-dimensional space with fewer parameters and design a Channel-Attention mechanism to distribute different weights to different channels. Then, in order to increase the exchange of information between channels, we introduce the Channel-Shuffle mechanism into the Inverted-Residual block. Finally, to alleviate the matter of the scarcity of SAR images and strengthen the generalization performance of the network, four approaches of data augmentation are proposed. The effect and generalization performance of the proposed ASIR-Net have been proved by a lot of experiments under both SOC and EOCs on the MSTAR dataset. The experimental results indicate that ASIR-Net achieves higher recognition accuracy rates under both SOC and EOCs, which is better than the existing excellent ATR methods.

scholarly journals Multiview Deep Feature Learning Network for SAR Automatic Target Recognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1455
Author(s):  
Jifang Pei ◽  
Weibo Huo ◽  
Chenwei Wang ◽  
Yulin Huang ◽  
Yin Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Target Recognition ◽  
Feature Learning ◽  
Automatic Target Recognition ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Sar Images ◽  
Single View ◽  
Learning Network ◽  
Deep Feature ◽  
Deep Feature Learning ◽  
Classification Information

Multiview synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images contain much richer information for automatic target recognition (ATR) than a single-view one. It is desirable to establish a reasonable multiview ATR scheme and design effective ATR algorithm to thoroughly learn and extract that classification information, so that superior SAR ATR performance can be achieved. Hence, a general processing framework applicable for a multiview SAR ATR pattern is first given in this paper, which can provide an effective approach to ATR system design. Then, a new ATR method using a multiview deep feature learning network is designed based on the proposed multiview ATR framework. The proposed neural network is with a multiple input parallel topology and some distinct deep feature learning modules, with which significant classification features, the intra-view and inter-view features existing in the input multiview SAR images, will be learned simultaneously and thoroughly. Therefore, the proposed multiview deep feature learning network can achieve an excellent SAR ATR performance. Experimental results have shown the superiorities of the proposed multiview SAR ATR method under various operating conditions.

scholarly journals D-ATR for SAR Images Based on Deep Neural Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zongyong Cui ◽  
Cui Tang ◽  
Zongjie Cao ◽  
Nengyuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Processing Speed ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Accurate Result ◽  
Target Recognition ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Automatic Target Recognition ◽  
Sar Images ◽  
Sliding Method ◽  
Fast Processing

Automatic target recognition (ATR) can obtain important information for target surveillance from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Thus, a direct automatic target recognition (D-ATR) method, based on a deep neural network (DNN), is proposed in this paper. To recognize targets in large-scene SAR images, the traditional methods of SAR ATR are comprised of four major steps: detection, discrimination, feature extraction, and classification. However, the recognition performance is sensitive to each step, as the processing result from each step will affect the following step. Meanwhile, these processes are independent, which means that there is still room for processing speed improvement. The proposed D-ATR method can integrate these steps as a whole system and directly recognize targets in large-scene SAR images, by encapsulating all of the computation in a single deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). Before the DCNN, a fast sliding method is proposed to partition the large image into sub-images, to avoid information loss when resizing the input images, and to avoid the target being divided into several parts. After the DCNN, non-maximum suppression between sub-images (NMSS) is performed on the results of the sub-images, to obtain an accurate result of the large-scene SAR image. Experiments on the MSTAR dataset and large-scene SAR images (with resolution 1478 × 1784) show that the proposed method can obtain a high accuracy and fast processing speed, and out-performs other methods, such as CFAR+SVM, Region-based CNN, and YOLOv2.

scholarly journals A Novel Convolutional Neural Network Architecture for SAR Target Recognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinjie Xie ◽  
Wenxin Dai ◽  
Zhenxin Hu ◽  
Yijing Liu ◽  
Chuan Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Target Recognition ◽  
Automatic Target Recognition ◽  
Neural Network Architecture ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Stationary Target ◽  
Optical Images

Among many improved convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures in the optical image classification, only a few were applied in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). One main reason is that direct transfer of these advanced architectures for the optical images to the SAR images easily yields overfitting due to its limited data set and less features relative to the optical images. Thus, based on the characteristics of the SAR image, we proposed a novel deep convolutional neural network architecture named umbrella. Its framework consists of two alternate CNN-layer blocks. One block is a fusion of six 3-layer paths, which is used to extract diverse level features from different convolution layers. The other block is composed of convolution layers and pooling layers are mainly utilized to reduce dimensions and extract hierarchical feature information. The combination of the two blocks could extract rich features from different spatial scale and simultaneously alleviate overfitting. The performance of the umbrella model was validated by the Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition (MSTAR) benchmark data set. This architecture could achieve higher than 99% accuracy for the classification of 10-class targets and higher than 96% accuracy for the classification of 8 variants of the T72 tank, even in the case of diverse positions located by targets. The accuracy of our umbrella is superior to the current networks applied in the classification of MSTAR. The result shows that the umbrella architecture possesses a very robust generalization capability and will be potential for SAR-ART.

scholarly journals Automatic Target Recognition for Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Based on Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Network and Deep Convolutional Neural Network

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoran Shi ◽  
Feng Zhou ◽  
Shuang Yang ◽  
Zijing Zhang ◽  
Tao Su
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Target Recognition ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Automatic Target Recognition ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Sar Image ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Feature Characterization

Aiming at the problem of the difficulty of high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image acquisition and poor feature characterization ability of low-resolution SAR image, this paper proposes a method of an automatic target recognition method for SAR images based on a super-resolution generative adversarial network (SRGAN) and deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). First, the threshold segmentation is utilized to eliminate the SAR image background clutter and speckle noise and accurately extract target area of interest. Second, the low-resolution SAR image is enhanced through SRGAN to improve the visual resolution and the feature characterization ability of target in the SAR image. Third, the automatic classification and recognition for SAR image is realized by using DCNN with good generalization performance. Finally, the open data set, moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition, is utilized and good recognition results are obtained under standard operating condition and extended operating conditions, which verify the effectiveness, robustness, and good generalization performance of the proposed method.

scholarly journals A CNN-ABiGRU method for Gearbox Fault Diagnosis

2022 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 440-446
Author(s):  
Xiaoyang Zheng ◽  
Zeyu Ye ◽  
Jinliang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Time Sequence ◽  
Attention Mechanism ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Generalization Performance ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Gated Recurrent Unit

As a key part of modern industrial machinery, there has been a lot of fault diagnosis methods for gearbox. However, traditional fault diagnosis methods suffer from dependence on prior knowledge. This paper proposed an end-to-end method based on convolutional neural network (CNN), Bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU), and Attention Mechanism. Among them, the application of BiGRU not only made perfect use of the time sequence of signal, but also saved computing resources more than the same type of networks because of the low amount of calculation. In order to verify the effectiveness and generalization performance of the proposed method, experiments are carried out on two datasets, and the accuracy is calculated by the ten-fold crossvalidation. Compared with the existing fault diagnosis methods, the experimental results show that the proposed model has higher accuracy.

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