Position Embedding-Free Transformer for Radar HRRP Target Recognition

Polarimetric high-resolution range profile (HRRP), with its rich polarimetric and spatial information, has become increasingly important in radar automatic target recognition (RATR). This study proposes an interpretable target-aware vision Transformer (ITAViT) for polarimetric HRRP target recognition with a novel attention loss. In ITAViT, we initially fuse the polarimetric features and the amplitude of polarimetric HRRP with a polarimetric preprocessing layer (PPL) to obtain the feature map as the input of the subsequent network. The vision Transformer (ViT) is then used as the backbone to automatically extract both local and global features. Most importantly, we introduce a novel attention loss to optimize the alignment between the attention map and the HRRP span. Thus, it can improve the difference between the target and the background, and enable the model to more effectively focus on real target areas. Experiments on a simulated X-band dataset demonstrate that our proposed ITAViT outperforms comparative models under various experimental conditions. Ablation studies highlight the effectiveness of polarimetric preprocessing and attention loss. Furthermore, the visualization of the self-attention mechanism suggests that attention loss enhances the interpretability of the network.

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Deep Hybrid Fusion Network for Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Target Recognition Using Multi-Domain High-Resolution Range Profile Data

Deng,

2024

Remote Sensing

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Most existing target recognition methods based on high-resolution range profiles (HRRPs) use data from only one domain. However, the information contained in HRRP data from different domains is not exactly the same. Therefore, in the context of inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), this paper proposes an advanced deep hybrid fusion network to utilize HRRP data from different domains for ship target recognition. First, the proposed network simultaneously processes time-domain HRRP and its corresponding time–frequency (TF) spectrogram through two branches to obtain initial features from the two HRRP domains. Next, a feature alignment module is used to make the fused features more discriminative regarding the target. Finally, a decision fusion module is designed to further improve the model’s prediction performance. We evaluated our approach using both simulated and measured data, encompassing ten different ship target types. Our experimental results on the simulated and measured datasets showed an improvement in recognition accuracy of at least 4.22% and 2.82%, respectively, compared to using single-domain data.

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Position Embedding-Free Transformer for Radar HRRP Target Recognition

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Polarimetric HRRP Recognition Using Vision Transformer with Polarimetric Preprocessing and Attention Loss

Polarimetric HRRP Recognition Using Vision Transformer with Polarimetric Preprocessing and Attention Loss

An Interpretable Target-Aware Vision Transformer for Polarimetric HRRP Target Recognition with a Novel Attention Loss

Deep Hybrid Fusion Network for Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Target Recognition Using Multi-Domain High-Resolution Range Profile Data

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