将雷达散射拓扑信息融入深度检测框架,提升SAR目标识别精度与可解释性。
PASTE: Physics-Aware Scattering Topology Embedding Framework for SAR Object Detection
- 基于物理模型生成可扩展的散射关键点,实现自动标注与拓扑注入。
- 在多个真实数据集上相对基线提升2.9%至11.3%的mAP,计算开销可控。
- 增强检测结果的可解释性,清晰区分目标与背景散射区域,适合雷达感知研究者。
当前基于深度学习的合成孔径雷达(SAR)图像目标检测主要沿用光学图像方法,将目标视为纹理块,忽略其固有的电磁散射机制。尽管散射点已被用于提升性能,但多数方法仍依赖幅度统计模型。部分方法引入频域信息提取散射中心,却面临高计算成本和跨数据集兼容性差的问题。为此,本文提出物理感知散射拓扑嵌入框架(PASTE),一种闭环架构,实现散射先验的全面集成。该框架从拓扑生成、注入到联合监督全程贯通:基于属性散射中心(ASC)模型设计散射关键点生成与自动标注方案,构建可扩展且物理一致的先验;通过散射拓扑注入模块引导多尺度特征学习,以散射先验监督策略约束网络优化,使预测对齐散射中心分布。实验证明,PASTE兼容多种检测器,在真实数据集上相较基线带来2.9%至11.3%的相对mAP提升,计算开销可接受。散射图可视化验证了其成功将拓扑先验嵌入特征空间,显著区分目标与背景散射区域,提供强可解释性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Current deep learning-based object detection for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery mainly adopts optical image methods, treating targets as texture patches while ignoring inherent electromagnetic scattering mechanisms. Though scattering points have been studied to boost detection performance, most methods still rely on amplitude-based statistical models. Some approaches introduce frequency-domain information for scattering center extraction, but they suffer from high computation cost and poor compatibility with diverse datasets. Thus, effectively embedding scattering topological information into modern detection frameworks remains challenging. To solve these problems, this paper proposes the Physics-Aware Scattering Topology Embedding Framework (PASTE), a novel closed-loop architecture for comprehensive scattering prior integration. By building the full pipeline from topology generation, injection to joint supervision, PASTE elegantly integrates scattering physics into modern SAR detectors. Specifically, it designs a scattering keypoint generation and automatic annotation scheme based on the Attributed Scattering Center (ASC) model to produce scalable and physically consistent priors. A scattering topology injection module guides multi-scale feature learning, and a scattering prior supervision strategy constrains network optimization by aligning predictions with scattering center distributions. Experiments on real datasets show that PASTE is compatible with various detectors and brings relative mAP gains of 2.9% to 11.3% over baselines with acceptable computation overhead. Visualization of scattering maps verifies that PASTE successfully embeds scattering topological priors into feature space, clearly distinguishing target and background scattering regions, thus providing strong interpretability for results.
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