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Synthetic aperture radar technology is crucial for high-resolution imaging under various conditions; however, the acquisition of real-world synthetic aperture radar data for deep learning-based automatic target recognition remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Minjun Kim , Ohtae Jang , Haekang Song , Heesub Shin , Jaewoo Ok , Minyoung Back , Jaehyuk Youn , Sungho Kim

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems operate by emitting radar signals from a moving object, such as a satellite, towards the target of interest. Reflected radar echoes are received and later used by image formation algorithms to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Andrew Rittenbach , John Paul Walters

The standard architecture of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) consists of three stages: detection, discrimination, and classification. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for SAR ATR have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Hidetoshi Furukawa

Target detection is the front-end stage in any automatic target recognition system for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery (SAR-ATR). The efficacy of the detector directly impacts the succeeding stages in the SAR-ATR processing chain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-16 Khalid El-Darymli , Peter McGuire , Desmond Power , Cecilia Moloney

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR), images are formed by focusing the response of stationary objects to a single spatial location. On the other hand, moving targets cause phase errors in the standard formation of SAR images that cause…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Gregory E. Newstadt , Edmund G. Zelnio , Alfred O. Hero

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging is capable of observing objects in nearly all weather and illumination conditions and has become an indispensable means of information acquisition for analysis and recognition of objects and scenes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jie Zhou , Yongxiang Liu , Li Liu , Weijie Li , Bowen Peng , Yafei Song , Gangyao Kuang , Xiang Li

Recently, there has been increasing concern about the vulnerability of deep neural network (DNN)-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) to adversarial attacks, where a DNN could be easily deceived by clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bowen Peng , Bo Peng , Jingyuan Xia , Tianpeng Liu , Yongxiang Liu , Li Liu

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) systems have shown to be highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations that are deliberately designed yet almost imperceptible but can bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Bowen Peng , Bo Peng , Jie Zhou , Jianyue Xie , Li Liu

Deploying deep learning on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is becoming more common for mapping purposes. One such case is sea ice, which is highly dynamic and rapidly changes as a result of the combined effect of wind, temperature, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Morteza Karimzadeh , Rafael Pires de Lima

In recent years, deep learning has been widely used in SAR ATR and achieved excellent performance on the MSTAR dataset. However, due to constrained imaging conditions, MSTAR has data biases such as background correlation, i.e., background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Weijie Li , Wei Yang , Li Liu , Wenpeng Zhang , Yongxiang Liu

Deep learning technologies have significantly improved performance in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image target recognition compared to traditional methods. However, the inherent ``black box" property of deep learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhuoxuan Li , Xu Zhang , Shumeng Yu , Haipeng Wang

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting deployment in safety-critical applications such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). Randomized smoothing improves robustness by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Daniel Brignac , Fengwei Tian , Banafsheh Latibari , Abhijit Mahalanobis , Ravi Tandon

Without sufficient data, the quantity of information available for supervised training is constrained, as obtaining sufficient synthetic aperture radar (SAR) training data in practice is frequently challenging. Therefore, current SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Yulin Huang , Jifang Pei , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang

A major challenges of deep learning (DL) is the necessity to collect huge amounts of training data. Often, the lack of a sufficiently large dataset discourages the use of DL in certain applications. Typically, acquiring the required amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Andoni Cortés , Clemente Rodríguez , Gorka Velez , Javier Barandiarán , Marcos Nieto

The outstanding pattern recognition performance of deep learning brings new vitality to the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, there is a limitation in current deep learning based ATR solution that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Fan Zhang , Chen Hu , Qiang Yin , Wei Li , Hengchao Li , Wen Hong

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery has diverse applications in land and marine surveillance. Unlike electro-optical (EO) systems, these systems are not affected by weather conditions and can be used in the day and night times. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Abu Md Niamul Taufique , Navya Nagananda , Andreas Savakis

Synthetic Aperture RADAR is a radar imaging technique in which the relative motion of the sensor is used to synthesize a very long antenna and obtain high spatial resolution. The increasing interest of the scientific community to simplify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Cataldo Guaragnella , Tiziana D'Orazio

Recently, an intriguing research trend for automatic target recognition (ATR) from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has arisen: using simulated data to train ATR models is a feasible solution to the issue of inadequate measured data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Xinzheng Zhang , Hui Zhu , Hongqian Zhuang

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) methods fall short with limited training data. In this letter, we propose a causal interventional ATR method (CIATR) to formulate the problem of limited SAR data which helps us…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Chenwei Wang , Xin Chen , You Qin , Siyi Luo , Yulin Huang , Jifang Pei , Jianyu Yang