Target recognition in synthetic aperture radar image based on PCANet

Automatic targets recognition (ATR) for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image is very important. ATR can be used in traffic management, national frontier safety, and so on. Traditional algorithms for SAR ATR is composed of extraction features and training classifier. The features are essential for the classification accuracy. However, choosing good features by hand is a hard task. The deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which can learn features automatically have got a great performance in natural images. However, the CNNs have many parameters and need a lot of data to train such networks. The remote-sensing data of SAR is limited. Then, the authors need a simple network which needs not much data and easy to train. The principal component analysis network (PCANet) is a shallow network that performs well in the recognition task and needs no hand features choosing. Though this network has produced a wide application in the natural images, it is rarely used in the SAR images. The experimental result of the moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition (MSTAR) dataset shows that the PCANet can achieve over 99% accuracy on ten-class targets. This result is better than traditional algorithms and is very close to the results of deep-learning methods.

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