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The improvement of convolutional neural network attention in existing SAR image target recognition focuses on spatial and channel information but lacks research on the relationship and recognition mechanism between spatial and channel information. In response to this issue, this article proposes a hybrid attention module and introduces a Mixed Attention (MA) mechanism module in the MobileNetV2 network. The proposed MA mechanism fully considers the comprehensive calculation of spatial attention (SPA), channel attention (CHA), and coordinated attention (CA). It can input feature maps for comprehensive weighting to enhance the features of the regions of interest, in order to improve the recognition rate of vehicle targets in SAR images.The superiority of our algorithm was verified through experiments on the MSTAR dataset.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info15030159","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,11]],"date-time":"2024-03-11T07:25:32Z","timestamp":1710141932000},"page":"159","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Vehicle Target Recognition in SAR Images with Complex Scenes Based on Mixed Attention Mechanism"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Tao","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronics Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Yuting","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ceyear Technologies Co., Ltd., Qingdao 266555, China"}]},{"given":"Rui","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100013, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0152-6621","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Deliang","family":"Xiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100013, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3316","DOI":"10.1109\/JSTARS.2015.2436694","article-title":"SAR Target Recognition via Joint Sparse Representation of Monogenic Signal","volume":"8","author":"Dong","year":"2015","journal-title":"IEEE J. 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