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Due to the sensitivity of SAR images to the observation azimuth, the multi-aspect SAR image sequence contains more information for recognition than a single-aspect one. Nowadays, multi-aspect SAR target recognition methods mainly use recurrent neural networks (RNN), which rely on the order between images and thus suffer from information loss. At the same time, the training of the deep learning model also requires a lot of training data, but multi-aspect SAR images are expensive to obtain. Therefore, this paper proposes a multi-aspect SAR recognition method based on self-attention, which is used to find the correlation between the semantic information of images. Simultaneously, in order to improve the anti-noise ability of the proposed method and reduce the dependence on a large amount of data, the convolutional autoencoder (CAE) used to pretrain the feature extraction part of the method is designed. The experimental results using the MSTAR dataset show that the proposed multi-aspect SAR target recognition method is superior in various working conditions, performs well with few samples and also has a strong ability of anti-noise.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14163924","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,15]],"date-time":"2022-08-15T23:44:03Z","timestamp":1660607043000},"page":"3924","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Multi-Aspect Convolutional-Transformer Network for SAR Automatic Target Recognition"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Siyuan","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5041-3300","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zongxu","family":"Pan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuxin","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-Spatial Information Processing and Application System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1225","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2014.2336241","article-title":"A high-order imaging algorithm for high-resolution spaceborne SAR based on a modified equivalent squint range model","volume":"53","author":"Wang","year":"2015","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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