强化散射特征的机载SAR实传图像盲超分辨重建

doi:10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.03.08

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Abstract:

Most of the existing super-resolution methods are based on the ideal degradation models and tend to lead to the averaging effect of strong scattering information, which is not suitable for the super-resolution reconstruction of airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) real-time transmission images. To address this issue, a blind super-resolution reconstruction network is constructed between airborne SAR real-time transmission images and fine imaging images. Firstly, a generative adversarial network is used to learn the mapping relationship between two image domains. Secondly, an attention mechanism is used to guide the network to focus on strong scattering areas. Then, perceptual cycle consistency loss is utilized to further preserve the image texture features. Finally, the effectiveness of the algorithm is verified on the measured airborne SAR datasets, and the human visual system signal-to-noise ratio and radiation resolution of the reconstructed results are improved by about 30% and 20%, respectively. Feature analysis and visualization indicate that the proposed method can improve image quality and reconstruct clear strong scattering features.

Key words: airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), real-time transmission image, enhanced scattering feature, blind super-resolution reconstruction, generative adversarial network (GAN)

CLC Number:

TN957.52

Yujia JIA, Siqian ZHANG, Tao TANG, Gangyao KUANG. Blind super-resolution reconstruction of airborne SAR real-time transmission images with enhanced scattering features[J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(3): 753-767.

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图像编号	评估指标	低分辨率图像	高分辨率图像	超分辨重建图像	提升百分比/%
1	HVSNR	4.108 0	6.485 4	5.692 4	38.57
1	γ/dB	3.594 4	3.191 8	3.258 1	9.36
2	HVSNR	4.843 3	6.632 2	6.225 3	28.53
2	γ/dB	5.136 2	3.720 0	3.854 8	24.95
3	HVSNR	5.499 2	7.777 2	7.035 2	27.93
3	γ/dB	4.736 5	3.687 7	3.673 9	22.43

切片编号	数据类型	全局指标		局部指标
切片编号	数据类型	μ	σ	n	v
1	高分辨率	54.63	58.09	730	249.62
	超分辨	54.09	52.32	700	235.27
	相对误差/%	0.99	9.93	4.11	5.75
2	高分辨率	35.96	27.36	150	228.09
	超分辨	34.41	29.25	186	227.68
	相对误差/%	4.31	6.91	24	0.18
3	高分辨率	60.71	41.80	620	227.59
	超分辨	77.96	43.52	698	230.90
	相对误差/%	28.41	4.11	12.58	1.45
4	高分辨率	50.05	38.29	432	236.20
	超分辨	51.72	37.69	396	230.78
	相对误差/%	3.34	1.57	14.58	2.29
5	高分辨率	56.68	56.12	720	241.75
	超分辨	61.53	48.72	631	232.27
	相对误差/%	8.56	13.19	12.36	3.92
6	高分辨率	35.72	20.06	38	229.61
	超分辨	39.56	20.98	43	227.58
	相对误差/%	10.75	4.54	13.16	0.88

算法	参数量/M	GFLOPs
CycleGAN^[28]	11.37	56.04
本文方法	11.54	56.06

实验方法	HVSNR	γ/dB	全局指标/%		局部指标/%
实验方法	HVSNR	γ/dB	μ	σ	n	v
高分辨率	2.168 9	3.334 4	-	-	-	-
低分辨率	1.076 6	4.313 1	115.03	46.78	285.07	2.04
CycleGAN^[28]	1.735 3	4.048 4	18.67	18.49	41.09	7.96
CycleGAN+L_per(·)	1.879 1	3.935 7	20.27	14.13	39.55	4.95
CycleGAN+CBAM	1.824 2	3.871 7	21.27	12.62	34.54	3.87
本文方法	1.954 6	3.775 1	17.53	12.81	30.51	3.52

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