Abstract
Few-shot recognition in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery remains a critical bottleneck for real-world applications due to extreme data scarcity. A promising strategy involves synthesizing a large dataset with a generative adversarial network (GAN), pre-training a model via self-supervised learning (SSL), and then fine-tuning on the few labeled samples. However, this approach faces a fundamental paradox: conventional GANs themselves require abundant data for stable training, contradicting the premise of few-shot learning. To resolve this, we propose the consistency-regularized generative adversarial network (Cr-GAN), a novel framework designed to synthesize diverse, high-fidelity samples even when trained under these severe data limitations. Cr-GAN introduces a dual-branch discriminator that decouples adversarial training from representation learning. This architecture enables a channel-wise feature interpolation strategy to create novel latent features, complemented by a dual-domain cycle consistency mechanism that ensures semantic integrity. Our Cr-GAN framework is adaptable to various GAN architectures, and its synthesized data effectively boosts multiple SSL algorithms. Extensive experiments on the MSTAR and SRSDD datasets validate our approach, with Cr-GAN achieving a highly competitive accuracy of 71.21% and 51.64%, respectively, in the 8-shot setting, significantly outperforming leading baselines, while requiring only ~5 of the parameters of state-of-the-art diffusion models. Code is available at: this https URL.
Abstract (translated)
在合成孔径雷达（SAR）图像中的少量样本识别仍然是实际应用中的一个重要瓶颈，原因在于极端的数据稀缺。一种有前途的策略是利用生成对抗网络（GAN）合成大量数据集，并通过自监督学习（SSL）进行预训练模型，然后对有限标记样本进行微调。然而，这种方法面临着一个基本矛盾：传统的GAN本身需要大量的数据才能进行稳定训练，这与少量样本学习的前提相违背。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了受一致性正则化的生成对抗网络（Cr-GAN），这是一种新颖的框架，旨在即使在这些严苛的数据限制条件下也能合成多样化且高保真的样本。 Cr-GAN引入了一个双分支判别器，将对抗性训练与表示学习解耦。这种架构支持一种基于通道的特征插值策略来创建新的潜在特征，并通过一个跨域循环一致性机制确保语义完整性。我们的Cr-GAN框架可以适应各种GAN架构，其生成的数据能够有效增强多种SSL算法。在MSTAR和SRSDD数据集上的广泛实验验证了我们方法的有效性，在8次样本的设置中，Cr-GAN分别达到了71.21%和51.64%的高度竞争准确性，显著优于领先的基准模型，并且仅需最先进的扩散模型参数的大约5%。代码可在以下网址获取：[this https URL]。
URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15681
