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In this paper, we propose an improved Prototypical Network (PN) based on Spatial Transformation, also known as ST-PN. Cascaded after the last convolutional layer, a spatial transformer module implements a feature-wise alignment rather than a pixel-wise one, so more semantic information can be exploited. In addition, there is always a huge divergence even for the same target when it comes to pixel-wise alignment. Moreover, it reduces computational cost with fewer parameters of the deeper layer. Here, a rotation transformation is used to reduce the discrepancies caused by different observation angles of the same class. Thefinal comparison of four extra losses indicates that a single cross-entropy loss is good enough to calculate the loss of distances. Our work achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition (MSTAR) dataset.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14092019","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,24]],"date-time":"2022-04-24T00:45:21Z","timestamp":1650761121000},"page":"2019","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["ST-PN: A Spatial Transformed Prototypical Network for Few-Shot SAR Image Classification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Jinlei","family":"Cai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6802-7101","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yueting","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Jiayi","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0515-8363","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}]},{"given":"Junwei","family":"Lv","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}]},{"given":"Yuxin","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Beijing 100190, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4340","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2020.3016820","article-title":"More diverse means better: Multimodal deep learning meets remote-sensing imagery classification","volume":"59","author":"Hong","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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