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In this article, based on generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL), we propose a space target recognition framework to simultaneously recognize space targets from both seen and unseen classes. First, we defined semantic attributes to describe the characteristics of different categories of space targets. Second, we constructed a dual-branch neural network, termed the global-local visual feature embedding network (GLVFENet), which jointly learns global and local visual features to obtain discriminative feature representations, thereby achieving GZSL for space targets with higher accuracy. Specifically, the global visual feature embedding subnetwork (GVFE-Subnet) calculates the compatibility score by measuring the cosine similarity between the projection of global visual features in the semantic space and various semantic vectors, thereby obtaining global visual embeddings. The local visual feature embedding subnetwork (LVFE-Subnet) introduces soft space attention, and an encoder discovers the semantic-guided local regions in the image to then generate local visual embeddings. Finally, the visual embeddings from both branches were combined and matched with semantics. The calibrated stacking method is introduced to achieve GZSL recognition of space targets. Extensive experiments were conducted on an electromagnetic simulation dataset of nine categories of space targets, and the effectiveness of our GLVFENet is confirmed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15215156","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,29]],"date-time":"2023-10-29T05:01:08Z","timestamp":1698555668000},"page":"5156","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Generalized Zero-Shot Space Target Recognition Based on Global-Local Visual Feature Embedding Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0251-5959","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuanpeng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Early Warning Academy, Wuhan 430019, China"},{"name":"Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710077, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-9914-0486","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jingye","family":"Guan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sichuan Sen Yu Hu Lian Technology Co., Ltd., Chengdu 610000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1258-7382","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haobo","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710077, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9383-3017","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kaiming","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710077, China"}]},{"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"}]},{"given":"Qun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710077, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5104909","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2023.3275991","article-title":"Recognition of Micro-Motion Space Targets Based on Attention-Augmented Cross-Modal Feature Fusion Recognition Network","volume":"61","author":"Tian","year":"2023","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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