用光学图像先验引导雷达图像少样本增量学习,缓解类间混淆和遗忘问题。
Optical-Guided Neural Collapse for SAR Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
- 基于光学数据构建正交子空间,作为雷达特征学习的几何先验
- 在24类目标上实现最高最终准确率,性能退化更小
- 适合雷达图像少样本增量学习任务,尤其关注类别混淆与遗忘
合成孔径雷达(SAR)图像中的少样本增量学习面临严重数据稀缺与成像特性带来的类内差异大、类间混淆的问题。特别是SAR的强方位敏感性导致同一类目标在不同视角下变化剧烈,而增量学习过程又加剧了对旧类别的灾难性遗忘。受神经坍缩启发,本文提出一种光学引导的SAR少样本增量学习框架:利用数据丰富的光学目标识别(ATR)数据集提取正交特征子空间,并将其作为几何先验,通过主角约束将SAR特征投影到这些子空间中,实现跨模态判别结构迁移。具体地,投影损失与固定单纯形-等角锥面(simplex-ETF)结构的分类器损失联合优化,促使特征集中于类中心并保持大类间夹角,诱导神经坍缩。在包含24个目标类别的基准数据集上评估,该方法在基线训练与七个增量会话设置下,优于近期的NCFSCIL等方法,达到最高最终准确率,并在性能退化与最终表现间取得良好平衡。神经坍缩指标显示类内紧凑性提升、类间可分性增强,表明学习特征更接近理想的单纯形-等角锥面结构。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) in synthetic aperture radar imagery presents unique challenges due to severe data scarcity and SAR-specific variability. In particular, strong azimuth sensitivity in SAR induces large intra-class variation and inter-class confusion, and FSCIL sequential updates further lead to catastrophic forgetting of previously learned classes. Inspired by neural collapse, we propose an optical-guided SAR FSCIL framework, which derives orthogonal feature subspaces from a data-rich optical ATR dataset and uses them as geometric priors to guide SAR feature learning. SAR features are projected onto these orthogonal subspaces via principal angle constraints, effectively transferring discriminative structure from the optical to the SAR domain. Specifically, our projection loss and the classifier loss optimized with a frozen simplex-ETF geometry jointly induce neural collapse by concentrating features around class means while maintaining large inter-class angles. We evaluate the approach on a benchmark comprising an optical ATR dataset and a SAR ATR dataset with 24 target classes, organized into a base training session and seven incremental sessions. Compared with recent FSCIL methods including NCFSCIL and so on, our method achieves the highest final accuracy and a favorable trade-off between final performance and performance degradation. Moreover, neural collapse metrics show improved intra-class compactness and inter-class separability, indicating that the learned features more closely approximate the ideal simplex-ETF geometry.
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