Electronics and Control

SAR target super-resolution based on transfer learning

  • XU Zhou ,
  • QU Changwen ,
  • HE Lingqi
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  • 1. Department of Radar Countermeasure, Electronic Engineering Institute, Heifei 230000, China;
    2. Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Naval Aeronautical and Astronautical University, Yantai 264001, China;
    3. School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Received date: 2014-07-07

  Revised date: 2014-08-11

  Online published: 2014-12-26

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China (61102166); Science Foundation for the Excellent Youth Scientist of ShanDong Province (BS2013DX003)

Abstract

Based on transfer learning, a method for synthetic aperture radar(SAR) target super-resolution reconstruction is proposed in this paper. A semi-coupled dictionary is jointly trained in the gradient domain of optical image. By utilizing the relationship revealed by semi-coupled dictionary, the sparse codes of SAR image are obtained. Then the image is reconstructed in the high resolution dictionary. Based on some prior knowledge of SAR image, the regularization method is also used in order to enhance the target feature. Several simulation experiments are conducted based on TerraSAR-X and MSTAR data, and the reconstructed results show that the spatial resolution obtained by the proposed method is 0.5-1.5 pixels higher compared to the current interpolation method as well as the sparse representation method. Regularization enhancement results show that it can further improve the spatial resolution and suppress clutters by introducing the sparse prior. Finally, the influences on the spatial resolution and target structure of the reconstruction image caused by regularization parameter are analyzed qualitatively.

Cite this article

XU Zhou , QU Changwen , HE Lingqi . SAR target super-resolution based on transfer learning[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2015 , 36(6) : 1940 -1952 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2014.0348

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