{"title":"通过新型因果干预正则化器实现去背景化合成孔径雷达自动目标识别","authors":"Hongwei Dong;Fangzhou Han;Lingyu Si;Wenwen Qiang;Ruiheng Zhang;Lamei Zhang","doi":"10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3459869","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies have utilized deep learning (DL) techniques to automatically extract features from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, which shows great promise for enhancing the performance of SAR automatic target recognition (ATR). However, our research reveals a previously overlooked issue: SAR images to be recognized include not only the foreground (i.e., the target), but also a certain size of the background area. When a DL-model is trained exclusively on foreground data, its recognition performance is significantly superior to a model trained on original data that includes both foreground and background. This suggests that the presence of background impedes the ability of the DL-model to learn additional semantic information about the target. To address this issue, we construct a structural causal model (SCM) that incorporates the background as a confounder. Based on the constructed SCM, we propose a causal intervention-based regularization method to eliminate the negative impact of background on feature semantic learning and achieve background debiased SAR-ATR. The proposed causal interventional regularizer can be integrated into any existing DL-based SAR-ATR models, mitigating the impact of background interference on the feature extraction and recognition accuracy without affecting the testing speed of these models. Experimental results on the moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition and SAR-AIRcraft-1.0 datasets indicate that the proposed method can enhance the efficiency of existing DL-based methods in a plug-and-play manner.","PeriodicalId":13116,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10679516","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Background Debiased SAR Automatic Target Recognition via a Novel Causal Interventional Regularizer\",\"authors\":\"Hongwei Dong;Fangzhou Han;Lingyu Si;Wenwen Qiang;Ruiheng Zhang;Lamei Zhang\",\"doi\":\"10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3459869\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"Recent studies have utilized deep learning (DL) techniques to automatically extract features from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, which shows great promise for enhancing the performance of SAR automatic target recognition (ATR). 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Background Debiased SAR Automatic Target Recognition via a Novel Causal Interventional Regularizer
Recent studies have utilized deep learning (DL) techniques to automatically extract features from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, which shows great promise for enhancing the performance of SAR automatic target recognition (ATR). However, our research reveals a previously overlooked issue: SAR images to be recognized include not only the foreground (i.e., the target), but also a certain size of the background area. When a DL-model is trained exclusively on foreground data, its recognition performance is significantly superior to a model trained on original data that includes both foreground and background. This suggests that the presence of background impedes the ability of the DL-model to learn additional semantic information about the target. To address this issue, we construct a structural causal model (SCM) that incorporates the background as a confounder. Based on the constructed SCM, we propose a causal intervention-based regularization method to eliminate the negative impact of background on feature semantic learning and achieve background debiased SAR-ATR. The proposed causal interventional regularizer can be integrated into any existing DL-based SAR-ATR models, mitigating the impact of background interference on the feature extraction and recognition accuracy without affecting the testing speed of these models. Experimental results on the moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition and SAR-AIRcraft-1.0 datasets indicate that the proposed method can enhance the efficiency of existing DL-based methods in a plug-and-play manner.
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The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing addresses the growing field of applications in Earth observations and remote sensing, and also provides a venue for the rapidly expanding special issues that are being sponsored by the IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society. The journal draws upon the experience of the highly successful “IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing” and provide a complementary medium for the wide range of topics in applied earth observations. The ‘Applications’ areas encompasses the societal benefit areas of the Global Earth Observations Systems of Systems (GEOSS) program. Through deliberations over two years, ministers from 50 countries agreed to identify nine areas where Earth observation could positively impact the quality of life and health of their respective countries. Some of these are areas not traditionally addressed in the IEEE context. These include biodiversity, health and climate. Yet it is the skill sets of IEEE members, in areas such as observations, communications, computers, signal processing, standards and ocean engineering, that form the technical underpinnings of GEOSS. Thus, the Journal attracts a broad range of interests that serves both present members in new ways and expands the IEEE visibility into new areas.