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Due to the high performance and automatic feature learning ability, deep network-based detection methods have been widely employed in SAR target detection. However, existing deep networks do not consider the target characteristics in SAR images, and their structures are too complicated. Therefore, lightweight deep networks with efficient and interpretable blocks are essential. This work investigates how to utilize the SAR characteristics to design a lightweight deep network. The widely employed constant false alarm rates (CFAR) detector is used as a prototype and transformed into trainable multiple-feature network filters. Based on CFAR filters, we propose a new class of networks called CFARNets which can serve as an alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Furthermore, a two-stage detection method based on CFARNets is proposed. Compared to prevailing CNNs, the complexity and number of parameters of CFARNets are significantly reduced. The features extracted by CFARNets are interpretable as CFAR filters have definite physical significance. Experimental results show that the proposed CFARNets have comparable detection performance compared to other real-time state-of-the-art detectors but with faster inference speed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15184411","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,7]],"date-time":"2023-09-07T10:09:50Z","timestamp":1694081390000},"page":"4411","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Lightweight CFARNets for Landmine Detection in Ultrawideband SAR"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Yansong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yongping","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tian","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"15","DOI":"10.1109\/LGRS.2018.2866331","article-title":"Fast prescreening for gpr antipersonnel mine detection via go decomposition","volume":"16","author":"Song","year":"2019","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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