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In this paper, a deep transferred multi-level feature fusion attention network with dual optimized loss, called a multi-level feature attention Synthetic Aperture Radar network (MFFA-SARNET), is proposed to settle the problem of small samples in SAR ATR tasks. Firstly, a multi-level feature attention (MFFA) network is established to learn more discriminative features from SAR images with a fusion method, followed by alleviating the impact of background features on images with the following attention module that focuses more on the target features. Secondly, a novel dual optimized loss is incorporated to further optimize the classification network, which enhances the robust and discriminative learning power of features. Thirdly, transfer learning is utilized to validate the variances and small-sample classification tasks. Extensive experiments conducted on a public database with three different configurations consistently demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed network, and the significant improvements yielded to surpass those of the state-of-the-art methods under small-sample conditions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12091385","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,28]],"date-time":"2020-04-28T14:30:58Z","timestamp":1588084258000},"page":"1385","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["MFFA-SARNET: Deep Transferred Multi-Level Feature Fusion Attention Network with Dual Optimized Loss for Small-Sample SAR ATR"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Yikui","family":"Zhai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China"}]},{"ORCID":"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2038-5844","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenbo","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China"}]},{"given":"Tian","family":"Lan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China"}]},{"given":"Bing","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Zilu","family":"Ying","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China"}]},{"given":"Junying","family":"Gan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China"}]},{"given":"Chaoyun","family":"Mai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China"}]},{"given":"Jingwen","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Ruggero Donida","family":"Labati","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departimento di Information, Universita, Degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 18, 20133 Milano (MI), Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3178-8198","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vincenzo","family":"Piuri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departimento di Information, Universita, Degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 18, 20133 Milano (MI), Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4277-3701","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fabio","family":"Scotti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departimento di Information, Universita, Degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 18, 20133 Milano (MI), Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Ahishali, M., Kiranyaz, S., Ince, T., and Moncef, G. 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