Journal of Xidian University ›› 2021, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (2): 7-14.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.2021.02.002

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Radar HRRP based few-shot target recognition with CNN-SSD

GUO Zekun1(),TIAN Long1(),HAN Ning2(),WANG Penghui1(),LIU Hongwei1(),CHEN Bo1()   

  1. 1. National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing,Xidian University,Xi’an 710071,China
    2. Unit 32181 of PLA,Xi’an 710032,China
  • Received:2020-12-25 Revised:2021-01-14 Online:2021-04-20 Published:2021-04-28
  • Contact: Ning HAN,Bo CHEN E-mail:gzk1105@163.com;tianlong_xidian@163.com;haning1103@163.com;wangpenghui@mail.xidian.edu.cn;hwliu@xidian.edu.cn;bchen@mail.xidian.edu.cn

Abstract:

The development of radar high resolution range profile(HRRP)non-cooperative targets recognition technology is mainly limited by two aspects:(1) Due to the low observation frequency of non-cooperative targets,the number of labeled HRRPs is insufficient,making non-cooperative HRRP based target recognition a typical few-shot recognition problem,which is still a hot and difficult issue without definite conclusion in the academia.(2) The existing HRRP based target recognition methods are mostly based on the hypothesis of complete dataset,making them mismatch with non-cooperative target recognition in few-shot setting.In this paper,we put aside the complete hypothesis and propose an HRRP based few-shot target recognition method with CNN-SSD.The proposed method first uses a complete training HRRP containing 45 classes of cooperative targets to learn an initial category-independent feature extractor,on the basis of which we further utilize the model sequential self-distillation mechanism to obtain a more generalized feature extractor.Finally,the generalization ability of the extracted features is evaluated on unseen non-cooperative targets during training.Experimental results on self-simulated HRRP dataset reveal that the proposed method can achieve an average recognition rates of 61.26%,84.69% and 92.52% respectively when only 1,5 and 10 annotated HRRPs of non-cooperative targets are available.

Key words: radar target recognition, few shot learning, feature extraction, high resolution range profile, convolutional neural networks, sequential self-distillation, radar target recognition, few shot learning, feature extraction, high resolution range profile, convolutional neural networks, sequential self-distillation

CLC Number: 

  • TP183