Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition with three strategies of learning and representation

Qun Zhao; Jose C. Principe; Victor Brennan; Dongxin Xu; Zheng Wang

doi:10.1117/1.602495

1 May 2000 Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition with three strategies of learning and representation

Qun Zhao, Jose C. Principe, Victor Brennan, Dongxin Xu, Zheng Wang

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 5, (May 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602495

We describe a new architecture for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) based on the premise that the pose of the target is estimated within a high degree of precision. The advantage of our classifier design is that the input space complexity is decreased with the pose information, which enables fewer features to classify targets with a higher degree of accuracy. Moreover, the training of the classifier can be done discriminantly, which also improves performance and decreases the complexity of the classifier. Three strategies of learning and representation to build the pattern space and discriminant functions are compared: Vapnik's support vector machine (SVM), a newly developed quadratic mutual information (QMI) cost function for neural networks, and a principal component analysis extended recently with multiresolution (PCA-M). Experimental results obtained in the MSTAR database show that the performance of our classifiers is better than that of standard template matching in the same dataset. We also rate the quality of the classifiers for detection using confusers, and show significant improvement in rejection.

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Qun Zhao, Jose C. Principe, Victor Brennan, Dongxin Xu, and Zheng Wang "Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition with three strategies of learning and representation," Optical Engineering 39(5), (1 May 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602495

Published: 1 May 2000

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