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
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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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description 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.
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spelling doaj-art-1f86bacf77914c749c69e68b3cd54fe82025-08-20T02:39:11ZengWileyElectronics Letters0013-51941350-911X2024-12-016024n/an/a10.1049/ell2.70123An innovative semantically guided SAR imaging and target enhancement methodGuoru Zhou0Zhe Zhang1Bingchen Zhang2Yirong Wu3Aerospace Information Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing ChinaAerospace Information Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing ChinaAerospace Information Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing ChinaAerospace Information Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing ChinaAbstract 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.https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70123deep learningradar imagingsynthetic aperture radar
spellingShingle Guoru Zhou
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An innovative semantically guided SAR imaging and target enhancement method
Electronics Letters
deep learning
radar imaging
synthetic aperture radar
title An innovative semantically guided SAR imaging and target enhancement method
title_full An innovative semantically guided SAR imaging and target enhancement method
title_fullStr An innovative semantically guided SAR imaging and target enhancement method
title_full_unstemmed An innovative semantically guided SAR imaging and target enhancement method
title_short An innovative semantically guided SAR imaging and target enhancement method
title_sort innovative semantically guided sar imaging and target enhancement method
topic deep learning
radar imaging
synthetic aperture radar
url https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70123
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