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The proposed algorithm leverages an improved residual fusion network and complex time\u2013frequency spectra. Specifically, we augment the Deep Residual Network-50 (ResNet50) with a spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) module to fuse feature maps from different receptive fields. Additionally, we enhance the feature extraction and fusion capabilities by replacing the conventional residual block layer with a multi-branch residual fusion (MBRF) module. Furthermore, we construct a complex time\u2013frequency spectrum dataset based on radar echo data from four different types of sea surface targets. We employ a complex-valued improved residual fusion network for learning and training, ultimately yielding the result of small target classification. By incorporating both the real and imaginary parts of the echoes, the proposed complex-valued improved residual fusion network has the potential to extract more comprehensive features and enhance classification performance. 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