Two-stage sparse representation of NSCT features with application to SAR target classification

Lijun Zhu, Zhen Liu and Huimin Gao

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, 2020, vol. 34, issue 17, 2371-2384

Abstract: To improve synthetic aperture radar (SAR) target classification performance, both the feature extraction and classification algorithms are considered. The nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) is employed to decompose SAR images to generate multi-layer components, which provide more discriminative descriptions for the targets. During the classification, the two-stage sparse representations are developed. Each NSCT component is classified using the sparse representation-based classification (SRC). Afterwards, the joint sparse representation (JSR) is adopted to represent the selected NSCT components from the first stage, which are assumed to be highly discriminative. Based on the two decisions, the target label of the test sample is determined. In the experiment, the moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition (MSTAR) dataset is used to set up scenarios for performance evaluation including the standard operating condition (SOC) and several extended operating conditions (EOCs). The results show the superior performance of the proposed methodover some current methods.

Date: 2020
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