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To address this problem, this article proposes a double squeeze-adaptive excitation (DS-AE) network where new channel attention modules are inserted into the convolutional neural network (CNN) with a modified ResNet18 architecture. Based on the squeeze-excitation (SE) network that employs a representative channel attention mechanism, the squeeze operation of the DS-AE network is carried out by additional fully connected layers to prevent drastic loss in the original channel information. Then, the subsequent excitation operation is performed by a new activation function, called the parametric sigmoid, to improve the adaptivity of selective emphasis of the useful channel information. Using the public SAR target dataset, the recognition rates from different network structures are compared by reducing the number of training images. The analysis results and performance comparison demonstrate that the DS-AE network showed much more improved SAR target recognition performances for small training datasets in relation to the CNN without channel attention modules and with the conventional SE channel attention modules.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21134538","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,1]],"date-time":"2021-07-01T21:55:52Z","timestamp":1625176552000},"page":"4538","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["SAR ATR for Limited Training Data Using DS-AE Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Ji-Hoon","family":"Park","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon 34186, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2096-3050","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Seung-Mo","family":"Seo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon 34186, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ji-Hee","family":"Yoo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon 34186, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6014","DOI":"10.1109\/ACCESS.2016.2611492","article-title":"Automatic target recognition in synthetic aperture radar imagery: A state-of-the-art review","volume":"4","author":"Gill","year":"2016","journal-title":"IEEE Access"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"302","DOI":"10.1117\/12.357648","article-title":"Template-based SAR ATR performance using different image enhancement techniques","volume":"3721","author":"Owirka","year":"1999","journal-title":"Proc. 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