An innovative semantically guided SAR imaging and target enhancement method

Abstract Conventional sparse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging methods apply regularisation to constrain scene priors. However, these methods often neglect specific target regions, resulting in undifferentiated imaging. This letter introduces a novel network for sparse SAR imaging and target re...

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Main Authors: Guoru Zhou, Zhe Zhang, Bingchen Zhang, Yirong Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-12-01
Series:Electronics Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70123
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Summary:Abstract Conventional sparse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging methods apply regularisation to constrain scene priors. However, these methods often neglect specific target regions, resulting in undifferentiated imaging. This letter introduces a novel network for sparse SAR imaging and target region enhancement, using target segmentation semantic information to integrate a modified attention mechanism into the image formation process. The complex‐valued convolution is used to handle SAR's complex‐valued data. Additionally, SAR imaging operator and its inverse operator accelerate echo processing. Experiments show improvements in the target–background ratio (TBR) and overall reconstruction quality across various downsampling scenarios.
ISSN:0013-5194
1350-911X