J4 ›› 2011, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (6): 22-29.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2011.06.004

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New frame segmentation method for radar HRRPs

WANG Penghui;DU Lan;LIU Hongwei;LI Yanbing;WU Zhaoping   

  1. (National Key Lab. of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2010-09-02 Online:2011-12-20 Published:2011-11-29
  • Contact: WANG Penghui E-mail:wangpenghui@mail.xidian.edu.cn

Abstract:

To deal with the target-aspect sensitivity of radar High Resolution Range Profiles (HRRP), a novel frame segmentation method is proposed. Firstly, the statistical characteristic of HRRPs' frequency spectrum amplitudes is analyzed and assumed to be joint Gaussian distribution. Then Probabilistic Principle Component Analysis (PPCA) is employed to model each sub-frame and the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is adopted to estimate the model parameters. Finally, the adjacent sub-frames which have the minimum Kullback-Leibler (KL) distance are merged iteratively to finish the frame segmentation. Both segmentation results and recognition performance of measured data verify the effectiveness of this method.

Key words: radar target recognition, high resolution range profile(HRRP), target-aspect sensitivity, probabilistic principle component analysis(PPCA), Kullback-Leibler distance

CLC Number: 

  • TN959.1+7