Automatic Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Ship Targets Recognition using Simple Multiple Kernel Learning Automatic ISAR Ship Targets Recognition using Simple-MKL

In radar automatic target recognition (RATR), inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) image recognition shows its advantages. Due to the limited sample size of ISAR images, support vector machine (SVM), known for its robustness in small sample classification, is often used for ISAR image recognition. For ISAR images of different targets, the single kernel SVM algorithm might lose its robustness. Therefore, this paper applies multiple kernel learning (MKL) to ISAR ship target recognition. The process begins with the preprocessing of the ISAR images to suppress Gaussian white noise. Then, principal component analysis (PCA) is employed to extract features from the ISAR images. Finally, the Simple-MKL method is used to recognize the samples. Experiments based on simulation data indicate that the method used in this paper improves the accuracy compared to other single-kernel SVM algorithms with different kernel functions.