Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (11): 3202-3210.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2021.11.20

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Aircraft detection in SAR images based on convolutional neural network and attention mechanism

Guangshuai LI1,2, Juan SU1,*, Yihong LI1, Xiang LI3   

  1. 1. College of Nuclear Engineering, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi'an 710025, China
    2. Unit 96882 of PLA, Nanchang 330200, China
    3. Unit 96823 of the PLA, Kunming 650000, China
  • Received:2020-07-30 Online:2021-11-01 Published:2021-11-12
  • Contact: Juan SU

Abstract:

In the application field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, the detection of aircraft target in SAR images has attracted much attention. Aiming at the problems of high computational complexity and low detection performance of existing detection algorithm models, an aircraft detection in SAR images algorithm based on depthwise separable convolutional neural network and attention mechanism is proposed. Firstly, the depthwise separable convolutional neural network is used to extract image features, and the inverted residual block is introduced into the network to effectively reduce the loss of feature information caused by channel slimming. Secondly, the multi-scale dilated convolution spatial attention mechanism module and global context channel attention mechanism module are introduced into the network. By redistributing more representative weights to salient regions and each feature map, the spatial effective information and semantic correlation between channels can be better captured, and the ability of feature expression can be enhanced. Finally, the comparative experimental verification is carried out on the SAR aircraft dataset (SAD). Experimental results show that this algorithm has a better detection effect, the average precision is 86.3%, and the detection speed is 22.4 fps/s.

Key words: synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, aircraft detection, depthwise separable convolution, attention mechanism

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