SAR-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Synthetic Aperture Radar Multi-View Representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05087v1
• Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:37:56 GMT
• Title: SAR-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Synthetic Aperture Radar Multi-View Representation
• Authors: Zhengxin Lei, Feng Xu, Jiangtao Wei, Feng Cai, Feng Wang, and Ya-Qiu Jin
• Abstract summary: This study combines SAR imaging mechanisms with neural networks to propose a novel NeRF model for SAR image generation. SAR-NeRF is constructed to learn the distribution of attenuation coefficients and scattering intensities of voxels. It is found that SAR-NeRF augumented dataset can significantly improve SAR target classification performance under few-shot learning setup.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: SAR images are highly sensitive to observation configurations, and they exhibit significant variations across different viewing angles, making it challenging to represent and learn their anisotropic features. As a result, deep learning methods often generalize poorly across different view angles. Inspired by the concept of neural radiance fields (NeRF), this study combines SAR imaging mechanisms with neural networks to propose a novel NeRF model for SAR image generation. Following the mapping and projection pinciples, a set of SAR images is modeled implicitly as a function of attenuation coefficients and scattering intensities in the 3D imaging space through a differentiable rendering equation. SAR-NeRF is then constructed to learn the distribution of attenuation coefficients and scattering intensities of voxels, where the vectorized form of 3D voxel SAR rendering equation and the sampling relationship between the 3D space voxels and the 2D view ray grids are analytically derived. Through quantitative experiments on various datasets, we thoroughly assess the multi-view representation and generalization capabilities of SAR-NeRF. Additionally, it is found that SAR-NeRF augumented dataset can significantly improve SAR target classification performance under few-shot learning setup, where a 10-type classification accuracy of 91.6\% can be achieved by using only 12 images per class.

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