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  • Review
  • Open Access
147 Citations
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30 Pages

22 November 2020

Underwater acoustics has been implemented mostly in the field of sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) procedures for submarine communication, the examination of maritime assets and environment surveying, target and object recognition, and measurement...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
21,597 Views
41 Pages

27 July 2023

Radar automatic target recognition (RATR) technology is fundamental but complicated system engineering that combines sensor, target, environment, and signal processing technology, etc. It plays a significant role in improving the level and capabiliti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,593 Views
22 Pages

12 August 2022

In recent years, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) has been widely used in both military and civilian fields. Due to the sensitivity of SAR images to the observation azimuth, the multi-aspect SAR image sequence contain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,023 Views
15 Pages

1 March 2023

Automatic target recognition technology is an important research direction in the field of machine vision. Artificial ground targets, such as bridges, airports and houses, are mostly composed of straight lines. The ratio of geometric primitive lines...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,008 Views
43 Pages

A Compact Methodology to Understand, Evaluate, and Predict the Performance of Automatic Target Recognition

  • Yanpeng Li,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Hongqiang Wang,
  • Yiping Chen,
  • Zhaowen Zhuang,
  • Yongqiang Cheng,
  • Bin Deng,
  • Liandong Wang,
  • Yonghu Zeng and
  • Lei Gao

25 June 2014

This paper offers a compacted mechanism to carry out the performance evaluation work for an automatic target recognition (ATR) system: (a) a standard description of the ATR system’s output is suggested, a quantity to indicate the operating condition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,483 Views
19 Pages

Robust Automatic Target Recognition via HRRP Sequence Based on Scatterer Matching

  • Yuan Jiang,
  • Yang Li,
  • Jinjian Cai,
  • Yanhua Wang and
  • Jia Xu

14 February 2018

High resolution range profile (HRRP) plays an important role in wideband radar automatic target recognition (ATR). In order to alleviate the sensitivity to clutter and target aspect, employing a sequence of HRRP is a promising approach to enhance the...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,120 Views
10 Pages

22 March 2023

SAR-ATR (synthetic aperture radar-automatic target recognition) is a hot topic in remote sensing. This work suggests a few-shot target recognition approach (FTL) based on the concept of transfer learning to accomplish accurate target recognition of S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,156 Views
20 Pages

Improved Local Ternary Patterns for Automatic Target Recognition in Infrared Imagery

  • Xiaosheng Wu,
  • Junding Sun,
  • Guoliang Fan and
  • Zhiheng Wang

16 March 2015

This paper presents an improved local ternary pattern (LTP) for automatic target recognition (ATR) in infrared imagery. Firstly, a robust LTP (RLTP) scheme is proposed to overcome the limitation of the original LTP for achieving the invariance with r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,070 Views
28 Pages

Non-Cooperative SAR Automatic Target Recognition Based on Scattering Centers Models

  • Gustavo F. Araujo,
  • Renato Machado and
  • Mats I. Pettersson

8 February 2022

This article proposes an Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithm to classify non-cooperative targets in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The scarcity or nonexistence of measured SAR data demands that classification algorithms rely only on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,526 Views
21 Pages

Multiview Deep Feature Learning Network for SAR Automatic Target Recognition

  • Jifang Pei,
  • Weibo Huo,
  • Chenwei Wang,
  • Yulin Huang,
  • Yin Zhang,
  • Junjie Wu and
  • Jianyu Yang

9 April 2021

Multiview synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images contain much richer information for automatic target recognition (ATR) than a single-view one. It is desirable to establish a reasonable multiview ATR scheme and design effective ATR algorithm to thorou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
864 Views
18 Pages

18 June 2025

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) plays a pivotal role in SAR image interpretation. While existing approaches predominantly rely on batch learning paradigms, their practical deployment is constrained by the sequential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,807 Views
21 Pages

27 September 2021

Although automatic target recognition (ATR) models based on data-driven algorithms have achieved excellent performance in recent years, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ATR model often suffered from performance degradation when it encountered a sma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,758 Views
23 Pages

30 July 2023

General synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image automatic target recognition (ATR) methods perform well under standard operation conditions (SOCs). However, they are not effective in extended operation conditions (EOCs). To improve the robustness of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,390 Views
20 Pages

4 January 2024

Deep learning technology has greatly propelled the development of intelligent and information-driven research on ship infrared automatic target recognition (SIATR). In future scenarios, there will be various recognition models with different mechanis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,731 Views
22 Pages

17 August 2023

To address the issue of incorrect recognition in the automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems on curved roads, a target recognition model is proposed to obtain the road curvature and to calculate the relative lateral distance. Based on the informati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,785 Views
21 Pages

TAN: A Transferable Adversarial Network for DNN-Based UAV SAR Automatic Target Recognition Models

  • Meng Du,
  • Yuxin Sun,
  • Bing Sun,
  • Zilong Wu,
  • Lan Luo,
  • Daping Bi and
  • Mingyang Du

16 March 2023

Recently, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has become a highly sought-after topic for its wide applications in target recognition, detection, and tracking. However, SAR automatic target recognition (ATR) models based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,971 Views
23 Pages

11 January 2019

Aiming at the problem of the difficulty of high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image acquisition and poor feature characterization ability of low-resolution SAR image, this paper proposes a method of an automatic target recognition method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,426 Views
25 Pages

26 March 2025

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) underpins various remote sensing tasks, such as defense surveillance, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. However, the scarcity of annotated SAR data significantly limit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,173 Views
22 Pages

19 November 2019

Low altitude, small radar cross-section (RCS), and slow speed (LSS) targets, for example small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have become increasingly significant. In this paper, we propose a new automatic target recognition (ATR) system and a comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,147 Views
17 Pages

27 September 2017

Model training is a key technique for radar target recognition. Traditional model training algorithms in the framework of single task leaning ignore the relationships among multiple tasks, which degrades the recognition performance. In this paper, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,600 Views
11 Pages

SAR Image Generation Method Using DH-GAN for Automatic Target Recognition

  • Snyoll Oghim,
  • Youngjae Kim,
  • Hyochoong Bang,
  • Deoksu Lim and
  • Junyoung Ko

20 January 2024

In recent years, target recognition technology for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has witnessed significant advancements, particularly with the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, acquiring SAR images requires signifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,576 Views
18 Pages

Currently, the geometric and radiometric calibration of on-board satellite sensors utilizes different ground targets using some form of manual intervention. Point source targets provide high precision geometric and radiometric information and have th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,773 Views
17 Pages

10 December 2008

During construction of the Šentvid tunnel a unique opportunity arose to measure the 3D displacements ahead of the motorway tunnel excavation face, since the exploratory tunnel was already constructed in the axis of the main tunnel. According to revie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,513 Views
21 Pages

7 November 2023

Artificial intelligence is changing and influencing our world. As one of the main algorithms in the field of artificial intelligence, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have developed rapidly in recent years. Especially after the emergence of NASNe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,864 Views
21 Pages

Deformation Detection of Mining Tunnel Based on Automatic Target Recognition

  • Changqi Ji,
  • Haili Sun,
  • Ruofei Zhong,
  • Mingze Sun,
  • Jincheng Li and
  • Yue Lu

4 January 2023

Mining tunnels have irregular and diverse cross-sectional shapes. Structural deformation detection using mobile laser measurement has some problems, such as the inconvenient positioning of the deformation, difficulties in unifying the multiphase data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,844 Views
16 Pages

22 March 2018

The algorithm of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for automatic target recognition consists of two stages: feature extraction and classification. The quality of extracted features has significant impacts on the final classification performance. This pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
9,205 Views
22 Pages

14 September 2018

Despite the fact that automatic target recognition (ATR) in Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has been extensively researched due to its practical use in both military and civil applications, it remains an unsolved problem. The major challenges o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,918 Views
20 Pages

2 August 2021

Automatic target recognition (ATR) in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images has been widely used in civilian and military fields. Traditional model-based methods and template matching methods do not work well under extended operating conditions (EOCs...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,876 Views
18 Pages

Automatic Target Recognition for Low Resolution Foliage Penetrating SAR Images Using CNNs and GANs

  • David Vint,
  • Matthew Anderson,
  • Yuhao Yang,
  • Christos Ilioudis,
  • Gaetano Di Caterina and
  • Carmine Clemente

8 February 2021

In recent years, the technological advances leading to the production of high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images has enabled more and more effective target recognition capabilities. However, high spatial resolution is not always achieva...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,480 Views
15 Pages

4 November 2022

In this paper, a method of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) based on Convolution Auto-encode (CAE) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) is proposed. Using SVM replaces the traditional softmax as the classifier of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
12,064 Views
24 Pages

11 January 2018

This paper presents a novel double weight-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and infrared (IR) sensor fusion method (DW-SIF) for automatic ground target recognition (ATR). IR-based ATR can provide accurate recognition because of its high image reso...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,947 Views
12 Pages

FEF-Net: A Deep Learning Approach to Multiview SAR Image Target Recognition

  • Jifang Pei,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Xueping Sun,
  • Weibo Huo,
  • Yin Zhang,
  • Yulin Huang,
  • Junjie Wu and
  • Jianyu Yang

2 September 2021

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an advanced microwave imaging system of great importance. The recognition of real-world targets from SAR images, i.e., automatic target recognition (ATR), is an attractive but challenging issue. The majority of exist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,488 Views
21 Pages

Multi-Block Mixed Sample Semi-Supervised Learning for SAR Target Recognition

  • Ye Tian,
  • Jianguo Sun,
  • Pengyuan Qi,
  • Guisheng Yin and
  • Liguo Zhang

21 January 2021

In recent years, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition has played a crucial role in multiple fields and has received widespread attention. Compared with optical image recognition with massive annotation data, lacking sufficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,309 Views
19 Pages

SAR-PATT: A Physical Adversarial Attack for SAR Image Automatic Target Recognition

  • Binyan Luo,
  • Hang Cao,
  • Jiahao Cui,
  • Xun Lv,
  • Jinqiang He,
  • Haifeng Li and
  • Chengli Peng

25 December 2024

Deep neural network-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) systems are susceptible to attack by adversarial examples, which leads to misclassification by the SAR ATR system, resulting in theoretical model robustness p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,306 Views
18 Pages

24 September 2018

This article discusses the issue of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Through learning the hierarchy of features automatically from a massive amount of training data, learning networks such as Convolutional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
5,453 Views
16 Pages

SAR ATR of Ground Vehicles Based on ESENet

  • Li Wang,
  • Xueru Bai and
  • Feng Zhou

1 June 2019

In recent studies, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) algorithms that are based on the convolutional neural network (CNN) have achieved high recognition rates in the moving and stationary target acquisition and recognit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,685 Views
24 Pages

16 May 2022

With the introduction of concepts such as ubiquitous mapping, mapping-related technologies are gradually applied in autonomous driving and target recognition. There are many problems in vision measurement and remote sensing, such as difficulty in aut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,863 Views
18 Pages

23 April 2018

This paper proposes a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) method by target reconstruction based on attributed scattering centers (ASCs). The extracted ASCs can effectively describe the electromagnetic scattering characte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,235 Views
17 Pages

Multi-Aspect SAR Target Recognition Based on Non-Local and Contrastive Learning

  • Xiao Zhou,
  • Siyuan Li,
  • Zongxu Pan,
  • Guangyao Zhou and
  • Yuxin Hu

13 June 2023

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) has been widely applied in multiple fields. However, the special imaging mechanism of SAR results in different visual features of the same target at different azimuth angles, so single...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,744 Views
19 Pages

24 June 2021

At present, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) has been deeply researched and widely used in military and civilian fields. SAR images are very sensitive to the azimuth aspect of the imaging geomety; the same target at d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,824 Views
19 Pages

When Deep Learning Meets Multi-Task Learning in SAR ATR: Simultaneous Target Recognition and Segmentation

  • Chenwei Wang,
  • Jifang Pei,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Yulin Huang,
  • Junjie Wu,
  • Haiguang Yang and
  • Jianyu Yang

25 November 2020

With the recent advances of deep learning, automatic target recognition (ATR) of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has achieved superior performance. By not being limited to the target category, the SAR ATR system could benefit from the simultaneous ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,262 Views
19 Pages

26 April 2024

The utilization of deep learning in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) has witnessed a recent surge owing to its remarkable feature extraction capabilities. Nonetheless, deep learning methodologies are often encumbered...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,411 Views
24 Pages

25 August 2024

Polarimetric high-resolution range profile (HRRP), with its rich polarimetric and spatial information, has become increasingly important in radar automatic target recognition (RATR). This study proposes an interpretable target-aware vision Transforme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,873 Views
9 Pages

1 April 2022

In this study, a novel feature learning method for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image automatic target recognition is presented. It is based on spatial pyramid matching (SPM), which represents an image by concatenating the pooling feature vectors t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
211 Citations
17,287 Views
28 Pages

Real-Time Underwater Maritime Object Detection in Side-Scan Sonar Images Based on Transformer-YOLOv5

  • Yongcan Yu,
  • Jianhu Zhao,
  • Quanhua Gong,
  • Chao Huang,
  • Gen Zheng and
  • Jinye Ma

7 September 2021

To overcome the shortcomings of the traditional manual detection of underwater targets in side-scan sonar (SSS) images, a real-time automatic target recognition (ATR) method is proposed in this paper. This method consists of image preprocessing, samp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,882 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2022

The traditional High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) target recognition method has difficulty automatically extracting target deep features, and has low recognition accuracy under low training samples. To solve these problems, a ship recognition meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,314 Views
24 Pages

10 May 2023

With the capability of capturing a target’s two-dimensional information, Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) imaging is widely used in Radar Automatic Target Recognition. However, changes in the ship target’s attitude can lead to the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,477 Views
33 Pages

Generative Adversarial Networks for SAR Automatic Target Recognition and Classification Models Enhanced Explainability: Perspectives and Challenges

  • Héloïse Remusati,
  • Jean-Marc Le Caillec,
  • Jean-Yves Schneider,
  • Jacques Petit-Frère and
  • Thomas Merlet

13 July 2024

Generative adversarial networks (or GANs) are a specific deep learning architecture often used for different usages, such as data generation or image-to-image translation. In recent years, this structure has gained increased popularity and has been u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
288 Views
23 Pages

Semantics- and Physics-Guided Generative Network for Radar HRRP Generalized Zero-Shot Recognition

  • Jiaqi Zhou,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Siyuan Mu,
  • Yuze Gao,
  • Feiming Wei and
  • Wenxian Yu

19 December 2025

High-resolution range profile (HRRP) target recognition has garnered significant attention in radar automatic target recognition (RATR) research for its rich structural information and low computational costs. With the rapid advancements in deep lear...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,894 Views
14 Pages

30 May 2024

Generative adversarial network (GAN) can generate diverse and high-resolution images for data augmentation. However, when GAN is applied to the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) dataset, the generated categories are not of the same quality. The unrealis...

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