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Object detection and classification using aerial images is a challenging task as the information regarding targets are not abundant. Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) images can be used for Automatic Target Recognition(ATR) systems as it can…

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Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) has seen significant performance improvements with deep learning. However, the black-box nature of deep SAR ATR introduces low confidence and high risks in decision-critical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Chenwei Wang , Renjie Xu , Congwen Wu , Cunyi Yin , Ziyun Liao , Deqing Mao , Sitong Zhang , Hong Yan

This work aims to train Deep Learning models to perform Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. To circumvent the lack of real labelled measurements, we resort to synthetic data produced by SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Benjamin Camus , Julien Houssay , Corentin Le Barbu , Eric Monteux , Cédric Saleun , Christian Cochin

This manuscript introduces SARFormer, a modified Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture designed for processing one or multiple synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Given the complex image geometry of SAR data, we propose an acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jonathan Prexl , Michael Recla , Michael Schmitt

Recent state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods use a combination of image-based transformations and consistency regularization as core components. Such methods, however, are limited to simple transformations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Chia-Wen Kuo , Chih-Yao Ma , Jia-Bin Huang , Zsolt Kira

Due to the expensive nature of field data gathering, the lack of training data often limits the performance of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) systems. This problem is often addressed with domain adaptation techniques, however the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Jean de Bodinat , Thomas Guerneve , Jose Vazquez , Marija Jegorova

Deep learning methods based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image target recognition tasks have been widely studied currently. The existing deep methods are insufficient to perceive and mine the scattering information of SAR images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chenxi Zhao , Daochang Wang , Siqian Zhang , Gangyao Kuang

We propose a new convolutional neural network (CNN) which performs coarse and fine segmentation for end-to-end synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) system. In recent years, many CNNs for SAR ATR using deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 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

Forward modeling of wave scattering and radar imaging mechanisms is the key to information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Like inverse graphics in optical domain, an inherently-integrated forward-inverse approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Shilei Fu , Feng Xu

Typical person re-identification (re-ID) methods train a deep CNN to extract deep features and combine them with a distance metric for the final evaluation. In this work, we focus on exploiting the full information encoded in the deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Yong Liu , Lin Shang , Andy Song

Recent studies have utilized deep learning (DL) techniques to automatically extract features from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, which shows great promise for enhancing the performance of SAR automatic target recognition (ATR).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Hongwei Dong , Fangzhou Han , Lingyu Si , Wenwen Qiang , Lamei Zhang

Deep unfolding networks have recently emerged as a promising approach for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. However, baseline unfolding networks, typically derived from iterative reconstruction algorithms such as the alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Shiping Fu , Yufan Chen , Zhe Zhang , Xiaolan Qiu , Qixiang Ye

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

With modern defense applications increasingly relying on inexpensive, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a major challenge lies in designing intelligent and computationally efficient onboard Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Conor Flynn , Radoslav Ivanov , Birsen Yazici

This letter proposes a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image registration method named Feature-Area Optimization (FAO). First, the traditional area-based optimization model is reconstructed and decomposed into three key but uncertain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Fuqiang Liu , Fukun Bi , Liang Chen , Hao Shi , Wei Liu

This report deals with translation invariance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for automatic target recognition (ATR) from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. In particular, the translation invariance of CNNs for SAR ATR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hidetoshi Furukawa

Personalizing diffusion models using limited data presents significant challenges, including overfitting, loss of prior knowledge, and degradation of text alignment. Overfitting leads to shifts in the noise prediction distribution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 JungWoo Chae , Jiyoon Kim , JaeWoong Choi , Kyungyul Kim , Sangheum Hwang

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…

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