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SAR Target Recognition via Meta-Learning and Amortized Variational Inference.

Ke Wang1, Gong Zhang2

  • 1School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211100, China.

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Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target Recognition (SAR-ATR) faces small data challenges. A new meta-learning and amortized variational inference model improves SAR-ATR performance with limited training data.

Keywords:
amortized variational inferenceautomatic target recognitionmeta-learning

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Area of Science:

  • Computer Science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target Recognition (SAR-ATR) methods are typically data-driven.
  • Collecting large SAR datasets for training is expensive and time-consuming.
  • The 'small data' problem hinders the performance of existing SAR-ATR models.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel SAR-ATR model addressing the challenge of limited training data.
  • To develop a recognition system that can adapt to new tasks with minimal data.
  • To enhance the efficiency and reduce the computational cost of SAR-ATR.

Main Methods:

  • Incorporation of meta-learning to train a shared feature extractor (global parameters).
  • Utilizing amortized variational inference (AVI) to model task-specific parameters as probability distributions.
  • Implementation of AVI using set-to-set functions for reduced computational and storage costs.

Main Results:

  • The proposed model demonstrates superior performance on a real SAR dataset, particularly in limited-data scenarios.
  • Experimental results show significant improvements compared to state-of-the-art SAR-ATR methods.
  • The model effectively adapts to new recognition tasks with a small amount of training data.

Conclusions:

  • The meta-learning and AVI-based SAR-ATR model effectively overcomes the small data challenge.
  • The approach offers a computationally efficient and adaptable solution for SAR-ATR.
  • This work advances the field of SAR-ATR by enabling robust recognition with scarce data.