Aiming at technical difficulties in feature extraction for the inverse synthetic aperture radar （ISAR） target recognition, this paper imports the concept of visual perception and presents a novel method, which is ba...Aiming at technical difficulties in feature extraction for the inverse synthetic aperture radar （ISAR） target recognition, this paper imports the concept of visual perception and presents a novel method, which is based on the combination of non-negative sparse coding （NNSC） and linear discrimination optimization, to recognize targets in ISAR images. This method implements NNSC on the matrix constituted by the intensities of pixels in ISAR images for training, to obtain non-negative sparse bases which characterize sparse distribution of strong scattering centers. Then this paper chooses sparse bases via optimization criteria and calculates the corresponding non-negative sparse codes of both training and test images as the feature vectors, which are input into k neighbors classifier to realize recognition finally. The feasibility and robustness of the proposed method are proved by comparing with the template matching, principle component analysis （PCA） and non-negative matrix factorization （NMF） via simulations.展开更多
Many problems in image representation and classification involve some form of dimensionality reduction. Nonnegative matrix factorization （NMF） is a recently proposed unsupervised procedure for learning spatially loc...Many problems in image representation and classification involve some form of dimensionality reduction. Nonnegative matrix factorization （NMF） is a recently proposed unsupervised procedure for learning spatially localized, partsbased subspace representation of objects. An improvement of the classical NMF by combining with Log-Gabor wavelets to enhance its part-based learning ability is presented. The new method with principal component analysis （PCA） and locally linear embedding （LIE） proposed recently in Science are compared. Finally, the new method to several real world datasets and achieve good performance in representation and classification is applied.展开更多
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文摘Aiming at technical difficulties in feature extraction for the inverse synthetic aperture radar （ISAR） target recognition, this paper imports the concept of visual perception and presents a novel method, which is based on the combination of non-negative sparse coding （NNSC） and linear discrimination optimization, to recognize targets in ISAR images. This method implements NNSC on the matrix constituted by the intensities of pixels in ISAR images for training, to obtain non-negative sparse bases which characterize sparse distribution of strong scattering centers. Then this paper chooses sparse bases via optimization criteria and calculates the corresponding non-negative sparse codes of both training and test images as the feature vectors, which are input into k neighbors classifier to realize recognition finally. The feasibility and robustness of the proposed method are proved by comparing with the template matching, principle component analysis （PCA） and non-negative matrix factorization （NMF） via simulations.
文摘Many problems in image representation and classification involve some form of dimensionality reduction. Nonnegative matrix factorization （NMF） is a recently proposed unsupervised procedure for learning spatially localized, partsbased subspace representation of objects. An improvement of the classical NMF by combining with Log-Gabor wavelets to enhance its part-based learning ability is presented. The new method with principal component analysis （PCA） and locally linear embedding （LIE） proposed recently in Science are compared. Finally, the new method to several real world datasets and achieve good performance in representation and classification is applied.
