Enhancing Few-Shot SAR Ship Recognition: Pseudospectrum Information Generation and Fusion

The limited number of samples in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship datasets hampers the advancement of target recognition performance using deep learning. Given the complex-valued nature of SAR data, incorporating spectrum information is beneficial for few-shot target recognition methods. However,...

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Main Authors: Gui Gao, WenXi Liu, Xi Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10966213/
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Summary:The limited number of samples in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship datasets hampers the advancement of target recognition performance using deep learning. Given the complex-valued nature of SAR data, incorporating spectrum information is beneficial for few-shot target recognition methods. However, the SAR ship domain faces two significant issues: a scarcity of datasets that include spectrum information and a lack of target recognition networks specifically designed to leverage this spectrum information. In order to solve the above problems, first, a SpecGenGANwith generating pseudospectrum information is proposed to solve the problem of missing spectrum information. Second, a SpecAmpFusionNet is designed to fully exploit the deep features of spectrum and amplitude information. Finally, a few-shot target recognition method based on pseudospectrum information generation and fusion network is presented, allowing flexibility and integration with various popular recognition methods. Experimental results demonstrate that under 3way-10shots and 5way-10shots conditions, our method improves average accuracies by 12.04% and 10.83%, respectively, compared to methods using only amplitude information, validating the effectiveness of our approach in enhancing few-shot SAR ship recognition.
ISSN:1939-1404
2151-1535