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Using SVM replaces the traditional softmax as the classifier of the CAE model to classify the feature vectors extracted by the CAE model, which solves the problem that the softmax classifier is less effective in the nonlinear case. Since the SVM can only solve the binary classification problem, and in order to realize the classification of the class objectives, the SVM were designed to achieve the classification of the input samples. After unsupervised training for CAE, the coding layer is connected with SVM to form a classification network. CAE can extract the features of the data by an unsupervised method, and the nonlinear classification advantage of SVM can classify the features extracted by CAE and improve the accuracy of the object recognition. At the same time, the high-accuracy identification of key targets is required in some special cases. A new initialization method is proposed, which initializes the network parameters by pretraining the key targets and changes the weights of different targets in the loss function to obtain better feature extraction, so it can ensure good multitarget recognition ability while realizing the high recognition accuracy of the key targets.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14215559","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,4]],"date-time":"2022-11-04T04:00:51Z","timestamp":1667534451000},"page":"5559","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["A Method of SAR Image Automatic Target Recognition Based on Convolution Auto-Encode and Support Vector Machine"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Yang","family":"Deng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Space Microwave Remote Sensing System Department, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"given":"Yunkai","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Space Microwave Remote Sensing System Department, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Rosenbach, K., and Schiller, J. 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