Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (12): 3652-3660.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.12.08

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Recognition method of ship target in complex SAR image based on improved ResNet network

Yu LEI, Xiangguang LENG*, Xiaoyan ZHOU, Zhongzhen SUN, Kefeng JI   

  1. College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • Received:2021-06-28 Online:2022-11-14 Published:2022-11-24
  • Contact: Xiangguang LENG

Abstract:

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) uses microwave coherent imaging, so SAR images are complex in essence. Traditional SAR image target recognition methods based on neural networks usually only process the amplitude information of SAR images, but cannot effectively use the unique complex information of SAR images. This paper aims at the application of ship target recognition in SAR image. Starting from the essence of SAR image, the complex information representation of input data is implicitly provided by combining the real part, imaginary part and amplitude information of SAR image. Then the channel attention mechanism is introduced on the basis of the ResNet18 network and its structure, so that the network can adaptively learn the complex information contained in the three channels of real part, imaginary part and amplitude. Finally, label smoothing regularization is introduced to solve the over-fitting phenomenon due to the lack of samples in complex data sets. The experimental results based on the OpenSARShip data set show that the method proposed in this paper can make better use of the complex information of the SAR image itself, and to a certain extent improve the effect of ship target recognition based on neural network.

Key words: synthetic aperture radar (SAR), neural networks, complex information, ship target recognition

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