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WANG Zhirui, KANG Yuzhuo, ZENG Xuan, et al. SAR-AIRcraft-1.0: High-resolution SAR aircraft detection and recognition dataset[J]. Journal of Radars, 2023, 12(4): 906–922. doi: 10.12000/JR23043
Citation: WANG Zhirui, KANG Yuzhuo, ZENG Xuan, et al. SAR-AIRcraft-1.0: High-resolution SAR aircraft detection and recognition dataset[J]. Journal of Radars, 2023, 12(4): 906–922. doi: 10.12000/JR23043

SAR-AIRcraft-1.0: High-resolution SAR Aircraft Detection and Recognition Dataset

DOI: 10.12000/JR23043
Funds:  The National Natural Science Foundation of China (62076241, 62171436)
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  • Corresponding author: SUN Xian, sunxian@aircas.ac.cn
  • Received Date: 2023-04-17
  • Rev Recd Date: 2023-06-27
  • Available Online: 2023-07-04
  • Publish Date: 2023-07-17
  • This study proposes a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) aircraft detection and recognition method combined with scattering perception to address the problem of target discreteness and false alarms caused by strong background interference in SAR images. The global information is enhanced through a context-guided feature pyramid module, which suppresses strong disturbances in complex images and improves the accuracy of detection and recognition. Additionally, scatter key points are used to locate targets, and a scatter-aware detection module is designed to realize the fine correction of the regression boxes to improve target localization accuracy. This study generates and presents a high-resolution SAR-AIRcraft-1.0 dataset to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method and promote the research on SAR aircraft detection and recognition. The images in this dataset are obtained from the satellite Gaofen-3, which contains 4,368 images and 16,463 aircraft instances, covering seven aircraft categories, namely A220, A320/321, A330, ARJ21, Boeing737, Boeing787, and other. We apply the proposed method and common deep learning algorithms to the constructed dataset. The experimental results demonstrate the excellent effectiveness of our method combined with scattering perception. Furthermore, we establish benchmarks for the performance indicators of the dataset in different tasks such as SAR aircraft detection, recognition, and integrated detection and recognition.

     

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