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However, existing data-driven approaches frequently ignore prior knowledge of the target, leading to a lack of interpretability and poor performance of trained models. To address this issue, we first integrate the knowledge of structural attributes into the training process of an ATR model, providing both category and structural information at the dataset level. Specifically, we propose a Structural Attribute Injection (SAI) module that can be flexibly inserted into any framework constructed based on neural networks for radar image recognition. Our proposed method can encode the structural attributes to provide structural information and category correlation of the target and can further apply the proposed SAI module to map the structural attributes to something high-dimensional and align them with samples, effectively assisting in target recognition. It should be noted that our proposed SAI module can be regarded as a prior feature enhancement method, which means that it can be inserted into all downstream target recognition methods on the same dataset with only a single training session. We evaluated the proposed method using two types of radar image datasets under the conditions of few and sufficient samples. The experimental results demonstrate that our application of our proposed SAI module can significantly improve the recognition accuracy of the baseline models, which is equivalent to the existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) ATR approaches and outperforms the SOTA approaches in terms of resource consumption. Specifically, with the SAI module, our approach can achieve substantial accuracy improvements of 3.48%, 18.22%, 1.52%, and 15.03% over traditional networks in four scenarios while requiring 1\/5 of the parameter count and just 1\/14 of the FLOPs on average.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16244743","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,19]],"date-time":"2024-12-19T10:54:20Z","timestamp":1734605660000},"page":"4743","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Structural Attributes Injection Is Better: Exploring General Approach for Radar Image ATR with a Attribute Alignment Adapter"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Xiaolin","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xunzhang","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shuowei","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junjie","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaolong","family":"Su","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4696-4502","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiawei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,12,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11905","DOI":"10.1007\/s10462-023-10469-5","article-title":"Application of deep generative networks for SAR\/ISAR: A review","volume":"56","author":"Zhang","year":"2023","journal-title":"Artif. 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