Fast Generation of Representative Synthetic Dataset with Salsa to Train ATR Models with Electromagnetic Couplings Data-Augmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00037v1
• Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:27:05 GMT
• Title: Fast Generation of Representative Synthetic Dataset with Salsa to Train ATR Models with Electromagnetic Couplings Data-Augmentation
• Abstract summary: This work focuses on training Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) models using simulated Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images.<n>To obtain robust and versatile ATR models, simulation needs to generate massive datasets that encompass all the variability found in real measurements.
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• Abstract: This work focuses on training Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) models using simulated Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images to circumvent the lack of real measurements. To obtain robust and versatile ATR models, simulation needs to generate massive datasets that encompass all the variability found in real measurements. Thus, we need a simulator that finds a good tradeoff between execution speed, computational resource consumption, and physical representativeness. In this work, we demonstrate that the Salsa simulator addresses this issue. We ran computing performance tests to show that Salsa can generate 21,600 synthetic images in less than 10 minutes using a single Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU. Using our ADASCA Deep Learning approach, we demonstrate that these data are sufficiently representative to train ATR models and reach state-of-the-art results on the MSTAR public dataset with an accuracy of 86 %. To illustrate how Salsa unlocks new possibilities to train ATR models, we use the simulator to conduct a study on Electromagnetic (EM) couplings between the targets and their immediate environment. We demonstrate that, if not accounted for in the training dataset, the variability of the EM couplings induced by the variability of the ground surfaces can significantly degrade the performance of ATR models, with an accuracy decrease of more than 4 %. We also show that Salsa can generate in a timely manner (i.e., in less than 4 hours using the same GPU as previously) a massive dataset of 648,000 images with a large variety of couplings to make the ATR models robust to EM coupling variations. Our ATR models can then achieve an accuracy of 87 % on the MSTAR dataset.

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