A Joint Moving Target Detection Method in Video SAR Via Low-Rank Sparse Decomposition and Transformer

Video synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has exhibited considerable potential for detecting and tracking ground moving targets. Numerous classical shadow-based detection methods have been applied in video SAR. In addition, shadow-assisted detection methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) h...

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Main Authors: Hui Fang, Guisheng Liao, Yongjun Liu, Cao Zeng, Xiongpeng He, Mingming Xu
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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Guisheng Liao
Yongjun Liu
Cao Zeng
Xiongpeng He
Mingming Xu
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description Video synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has exhibited considerable potential for detecting and tracking ground moving targets. Numerous classical shadow-based detection methods have been applied in video SAR. In addition, shadow-assisted detection methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been developed. In this article, we propose a joint detection method for moving targets in video SAR, which can combine the information of the video SAR image and the corresponding sparse image to suppress background interference sufficiently and improve detection accuracy. Specifically, the low-rank sparse decomposition technology is first applied for video SAR images to generate their corresponding sparse images in which the background is eliminated and shadows of moving targets are enhanced. Then, we improve faster RCNN and build a two-stream extraction feature network based on the Transformer structure that allows the video SAR image and the sparse image as input simultaneously as well as extracts and fuses the features from two types of the images, which can acquire more discriminative target features, thereby improving the final the detection performance. Furthermore, the improved faster RCNN only modifies the original feature extraction network. Thus, it can adopt the same training and test manner as faster RCNN, greatly facilitating its utilization. Finally, experiment results on Sandia National Laboratories data demonstrate that the proposed detection method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. And our method reduces the false alarms by 1.02%, the missed detections by 43.24%, and increases the mean average precision by 2.98%.
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spelling doaj-art-c3f0cd13ac784a8a88e007467f52ada02024-12-10T00:00:33ZengIEEEIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing1939-14042151-15352025-01-01181007101910.1109/JSTARS.2024.350363910759747A Joint Moving Target Detection Method in Video SAR Via Low-Rank Sparse Decomposition and TransformerHui Fang0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1902-8156Guisheng Liao1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5919-0713Yongjun Liu2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1628-8865Cao Zeng3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5842-3629Xiongpeng He4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8873-8998Mingming Xu5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7159-6994National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, ChinaNational Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, ChinaNational Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, ChinaNational Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, ChinaNational Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, ChinaInstitute of Remote Sensing Satellite, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, ChinaVideo synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has exhibited considerable potential for detecting and tracking ground moving targets. Numerous classical shadow-based detection methods have been applied in video SAR. In addition, shadow-assisted detection methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been developed. In this article, we propose a joint detection method for moving targets in video SAR, which can combine the information of the video SAR image and the corresponding sparse image to suppress background interference sufficiently and improve detection accuracy. Specifically, the low-rank sparse decomposition technology is first applied for video SAR images to generate their corresponding sparse images in which the background is eliminated and shadows of moving targets are enhanced. Then, we improve faster RCNN and build a two-stream extraction feature network based on the Transformer structure that allows the video SAR image and the sparse image as input simultaneously as well as extracts and fuses the features from two types of the images, which can acquire more discriminative target features, thereby improving the final the detection performance. Furthermore, the improved faster RCNN only modifies the original feature extraction network. Thus, it can adopt the same training and test manner as faster RCNN, greatly facilitating its utilization. Finally, experiment results on Sandia National Laboratories data demonstrate that the proposed detection method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. And our method reduces the false alarms by 1.02%, the missed detections by 43.24%, and increases the mean average precision by 2.98%.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10759747/Convolutional neural network (CNN)low-rank sparse decomposition (LSD)shadowtarget detectionvideo synthetic aperture radar (video SAR)
spellingShingle Hui Fang
Guisheng Liao
Yongjun Liu
Cao Zeng
Xiongpeng He
Mingming Xu
A Joint Moving Target Detection Method in Video SAR Via Low-Rank Sparse Decomposition and Transformer
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Convolutional neural network (CNN)
low-rank sparse decomposition (LSD)
shadow
target detection
video synthetic aperture radar (video SAR)
title A Joint Moving Target Detection Method in Video SAR Via Low-Rank Sparse Decomposition and Transformer
title_full A Joint Moving Target Detection Method in Video SAR Via Low-Rank Sparse Decomposition and Transformer
title_fullStr A Joint Moving Target Detection Method in Video SAR Via Low-Rank Sparse Decomposition and Transformer
title_full_unstemmed A Joint Moving Target Detection Method in Video SAR Via Low-Rank Sparse Decomposition and Transformer
title_short A Joint Moving Target Detection Method in Video SAR Via Low-Rank Sparse Decomposition and Transformer
title_sort joint moving target detection method in video sar via low rank sparse decomposition and transformer
topic Convolutional neural network (CNN)
low-rank sparse decomposition (LSD)
shadow
target detection
video synthetic aperture radar (video SAR)
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10759747/
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