Affiliation:
1. School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China
2. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China
Abstract
The utilization of deep learning in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) has witnessed a recent surge owing to its remarkable feature extraction capabilities. Nonetheless, deep learning methodologies are often encumbered by inadequacies in labeled data and the protracted nature of training processes. To address these challenges and offer an alternative avenue for accurately extracting image features, this paper puts forth a novel and distinctive network dubbed the Capsule Broad Learning System Network for robust SAR ATR (CBLS-SARNET). This novel strategy is specifically tailored to cater to small-sample SAR ATR scenarios. On the one hand, we introduce a United Division Co-training (UDC) Framework as a feature filter, adeptly amalgamating CapsNet and the Broad Learning System (BLS) to enhance network efficiency and efficacy. On the other hand, we devise a Parameters Sharing (PS) network to facilitate secondary learning by sharing the weight and bias of BLS node layers, thereby augmenting the recognition capability of CBLS-SARNET. Experimental results unequivocally demonstrate that our proposed CBLS-SARNET outperforms other deep learning methods in terms of recognition accuracy and training time. Furthermore, experiments validate the generalization and robustness of our novel method under various conditions, including the addition of blur, Gaussian noise, noisy labels, and different depression angles. These findings underscore the superior generalization capabilities of CBLS-SARNET across diverse SAR ATR scenarios.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Guangdong Higher Education Innovation and Strengthening School Project
Wuyi University Hong Kong and Macao Joint Research and Development Fund
Guangdong Jiangmen Science and Technology Research Project
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