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However, aircraft identification from SAR images still faces great challenges due to speckle noise interference, multiscale problems, and complex background interference. To solve these problems, an efficient bidirectional path multiscale fusion and attention network (EBMA-Net) is proposed in this paper. It employs bidirectional connectivity to fuse the features of aircraft with different scales to perform the accurate detection of aircraft even when the background is highly complex. In the presented EBMA-Net, a module called efficient multiscale channel attention fusion (EMCA) and three parallel squeeze efficient channel attention (SECA) modules are proposed. In the EMCA module, the bidirectional paths are created by stacking upper and lower fusion modules, which effectively integrate shallow detailed features and deep semantic information. So, the detection performance of aircraft at different scales is improved. In the SECA module, the dependency relationship between feature channels is explicitly modeled, which can automatically learn the importance of different channels, prioritize key features, so as to improve the precision and robustness of aircraft identification. In the experiment, the public dataset of aircraft identification (i.e., SAR-AIRcraft-1.0, which is generated from the GF-3 satellite) from high-resolution SAR systems is used, and several other excellent target-detection networks are used for performance comparison, namely, YOLOv5s, YOLOv7, MGCAN, and EBPA2N. According to the results, the average aircraft detection accuracy of EBMA-Net is 91.31%, which is 4.5% higher than YOLOv7; and the false alarm rate is decreased by 5%. Its accuracy in the identification of aircraft can reach 95.6%, which is about 3.7% higher than YOLOv7. Therefore, the EBMA-Net obviously outperforms the other networks for aircraft detection and identification. The proposed EBMA-Net, which can capture the detailed information and better restrain the background interference, could also be used to perform the detection and identification of dense targets with different scales and background from SAR images.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16173177","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,28]],"date-time":"2024-08-28T07:52:08Z","timestamp":1724831528000},"page":"3177","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Automatic Aircraft Identification with High Precision from SAR Images Considering Multiscale Problems and Channel Information Enhancement"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Jing","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Xi\u2019an Key Laboratory of Network Convergence Communication, College of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi\u2019an University of Science and Technology, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-3870-8877","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guohan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Xi\u2019an Key Laboratory of Network Convergence Communication, College of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi\u2019an University of Science and Technology, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]},{"given":"Jiaxing","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Xi\u2019an Key Laboratory of Network Convergence Communication, College of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi\u2019an University of Science and Technology, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]},{"given":"Wenjie","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha 410114, China"}]},{"given":"Wanying","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Xi\u2019an Key Laboratory of Network Convergence Communication, College of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi\u2019an University of Science and Technology, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Zhang, C. 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