Rotation Awareness Based Self-Supervised Learning for SAR Target Recognition

Shuai Zhang, Zaidao Wen, Zhunga Liu, Quan Pan

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Abstract

In this paper, we newly suggest that more attention should be paid on learning rotation-equivariant and label-invariant features for each target instead of the conventional rotation-invariant ones. To achieve this goal, we present a novel rotation awareness based self-supervised learning (RR-SSL) deep model to recognize the behavior of target rotation, which is also benefit from the discriminative training scheme without manual labeling. Then this model is incorporated into another deep discriminative model of target recognition to form a dual-task learning framework, where their bottom layers are shared to capture the expected features. Sufficient experimental results on moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition (MSTAR) database demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed model. The overall framework can achieve a better or comparative recognition accuracy compared with other state-of-the-art SAR-ATR algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1378-1381
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538691540
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2019
Event39th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 28 Jul 20192 Aug 2019

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Conference

Conference39th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2019
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period28/07/192/08/19

Keywords

  • automatic target recognition
  • equivariant feature learning
  • rotation awareness
  • self-supervised learning
  • synthetic aperture radar

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