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In this paper, a statistics learning network (SLN) based on the quadratic form is presented. The statistical features are expected to be fitted in the SLN for SAR image representation. (i) Relying on the quadratic form in linear algebra theory, a quadratic primitive is developed to comprehensively learn the elementary statistical features. This primitive is an extension to the convolutional primitive that involves both nonlinear and linear transformations and provides more flexibility in feature extraction. (ii) With the aid of this quadratic primitive, the SLN is proposed for the classification task. In the SLN, different types of statistics of SAR images are automatically extracted for representation. Experimental results on three datasets show that the SLN outperforms a standard CNN and traditional texture-based methods and has potential for SAR image classification.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11030282","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,1]],"date-time":"2019-02-01T03:08:05Z","timestamp":1548990485000},"page":"282","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Statistics Learning Network Based on the Quadratic Form for SAR Image Classification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3662-5769","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chu","family":"He","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic and Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bokun","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic and Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xinlong","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic and Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chenyao","family":"Kang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Electronic and Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mingsheng","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan 430079, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6","DOI":"10.1109\/MGRS.2013.2248301","article-title":"A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar","volume":"1","author":"Moreira","year":"2013","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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