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Given that the traditional imaging methods have poor imaging performance or low efficiency, and the existing deep learning imaging methods cannot effectively reconstruct the deblurred ISAR images retaining rich details and textures, an unblurring ISAR imaging method based on an advanced Transformer structure for maneuvering targets is proposed. We first present a pseudo-measured data generation method based on the DeepLabv3+ network and Diamond-Square algorithm to acquire an ISAR dataset for training with good generalization to measured data. Next, with the locally-enhanced window Transformer block adopted to enhance the ability to capture local context as well as global dependencies, we construct a novel Uformer-based GAN (UFGAN) to restore the deblurred ISAR images with rich details and textures from blurred imaging results. The simulation and measured experiments show that the proposed method can achieve fast and high-quality imaging for maneuvering targets under the condition of a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and sparse aperture.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14205270","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,24]],"date-time":"2022-10-24T10:09:23Z","timestamp":1666606163000},"page":"5270","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Unblurring ISAR Imaging for Maneuvering Target Based on UFGAN"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Wenzhe","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710077, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4816-5675","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanxin","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710077, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0251-5959","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuanpeng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710077, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1460-4289","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ying","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710077, China"},{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710077, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Chen, V.C., and Martorella, M. 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