Boosting SAR ATR Trustworthiness via ERFA: An Electromagnetic Reconstruction Feature Alignment Method
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| Publicado en: | Remote Sensing vol. 17, no. 23 (2025), p. 3855-3882 |
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| Resumen: | <sec sec-type="highlights"> What are the main findings? <list list-type="bullet"> <list-item> </list-item>The integration of the frequency-domain electromagnetic reconstruction algorithm with image-domain cropping optimization achieves an effective balance between reconstruction accuracy and computational efficiency. <list-item> The integration of electromagnetic reconstruction and feature alignment effectively enhances model robustness and suppresses background clutter in SAR ATR under varying operating conditions. </list-item> What are the implications of the main findings? <list list-type="bullet"> <list-item> </list-item>Provides a trustworthy deep learning solution for SAR ATR by aligning electromagnetic reconstructions with image features, which helps mitigate overfitting to specific operating conditions. <list-item> Provides evidence that utilizing target-related physical features significantly enhances the robustness, generalization and interpretability of deep learning-based SAR ATR. </list-item> Deep learning-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) methods exhibit a tendency to overfit specific operating conditions—such as radar parameters and background clutter—which frequently leads to high sensitivity against variations in these conditions. A novel electromagnetic reconstruction feature alignment (ERFA) method is proposed in this paper, which integrates electromagnetic reconstruction with feature alignment into a fully convolutional network, forming the ERFA-FVGGNet. The ERFA-FVGGNet comprises three modules: electromagnetic reconstruction using our proposed orthogonal matching pursuit with image-domain cropping-optimization (OMP-IC) algorithm for efficient, high-precision attributed scattering center (ASC) reconstruction and extraction; the designed FVGGNet combining transfer learning with a lightweight fully convolutional network to enhance feature extraction and generalization; and feature alignment employing a dual-loss to suppress background clutter while improving robustness and interpretability. Experimental results demonstrate that ERFA-FVGGNet boosts trustworthiness by enhancing robustness, generalization and interpretability. |
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| ISSN: | 2072-4292 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/rs17233855 |
| Fuente: | Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database |