A hierarchical propelled fusion strategy for SAR automatic target recognition

作者：Cui, Zongyong; Cao, Zongjie^*; Yang, Jianyu; Feng, Jilan

来源：EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2013, 2013(1): 39.

DOI：10.1186/1687-1499-2013-39

• SAR target recognition
• Multiple classifiers fusion
• Hierarchical propelled strategy

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) is playing a very important role in military and civil field. Much work has been done to improve the performance of SAR ATR systems. It is well-known that ensemble methods can be used for improving prediction performance. Thus recognition using multiple classifiers fusion (MCF) has become a research hotspot in SAR ATR. Most current researchers focus on the fusion methods by parallel structure. However, such parallel structure has some disadvantages, such as large time consumption, features attribution conflict and low capability on confuser recognition. A hierarchical propelled strategy for multi-classifier fusion (HPSMCF) is proposed in this paper. The proposed HPSMCF has the characters both of series and parallel structure. Features can be used more effective and the recognition efficiency can be improved by extracting features and fusing the probabilistic outputs in a hierarchical propelled way. Meanwhile, the confuser recognition can be achieved by setting thresholds for the confidence in each level. Experiments on MSTAR public data demonstrate that the proposed HPSMCF is robust for variant recognition conditions. Compared with the parallel structure, HPSMCF has better performance both on time consumption and recognition rate.

• 出版日期2013
• 单位电子科技大学