Abstract
The conventional methods for target detection and discrimination in high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images usually have low accuracy and slow speed, especially for large complex scenes. To overcome these drawbacks, in this paper, we propose a target detection and discrimination method based on visual attention model. In the detection stage, to pop out the targets and suppress the background clutter in the saliency map, we select the task-dependent scales from the Gaussian pyramid of the original SAR image. Moreover, we adopt the clustering algorithm to remerge several isolated focus of attention areas, which are obtained from the saliency map, into a complete target region. The candidate target SAR image chips are extracted with relative high accuracy and low time cost in this stage. Since there may be single target, multiple targets, or partial targets with complex clutter in each SAR image chip, it is hard to acquire accurate target-shaped blob via segmentation. Some classical discrimination features which are extracted based on target segmentation may lose effectiveness. In the discrimination stage of our method, to solve the above problem, based on the saliency and gist (SG) features for optical satellite images, we propose the modified SG (MSG) features for SAR target discrimination. The MSG features are complementary to each other and can provide a more complete description of the extracted SAR image chips without segmentation, which also reduces the computation burden. The experimental results on the synthetic images and miniSAR real SAR image data set demonstrate that the proposed target detection and discrimination method can detect and discriminate the targets from the complex background clutter with high accuracy and fast speed in high-resolution SAR images.
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