1. EFTL: Complex Convolutional Networks With Electromagnetic Feature Transfer Learning for SAR Target Recognition
- Author
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Mengdao Xing, Guang-Cai Sun, Hanwen Yu, and Jiaming Liu
- Subjects
Synthetic aperture radar ,Signal processing ,Artificial neural network ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Activation function ,ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION ,Initialization ,Pattern recognition ,Graph drawing ,Feature (machine learning) ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Artificial intelligence ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Transfer of learning ,business - Abstract
Considering that synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images obtained directly after signal processing are in the form of complex matrices, we propose a complex convolutional network for SAR target recognition. In this article, we give a brief introduction to complex convolutional networks and compare them with the real counterpart. A complex activation function is applied to analyze the influence of phase information in complex neural networks. Inspired by the theory of network visualization, a special kind of transfer learning based on the electromagnetic property from the attributed scattering center model is applied in our networks to modulate the first convolutional layer. The experiment shows a better performance in terms of classification accuracy compared to random weight initialization.
- Published
- 2022