Target Classification Using the Deep Convolutional Networks for SAR Images

The algorithm of synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR-ATR) is generally composed of the extraction of a set of features that transform the raw input into a representation, followed by a trainable classifier. The feature extractor is often hand designed with domain knowledge and can significantly impact the classification accuracy. By automatically learning hierarchies of features from massive training data, deep convolutional networks (ConvNets) recently have obtained state-of-the-art results in many computer vision and speech recognition tasks. However, when ConvNets was directly applied to SAR-ATR, it yielded severe overfitting due to limited training images. To reduce the number of…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 61571134, 61331020, 61571132, 61471127
• DA
  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency