Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (10): 2775-2781.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2021.10.09

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Radar HRRP sequence target recognition method of attention mechanism based stacked LSTM network

Yifan ZHANG1,*, Shuanghui ZHANG2, Yongxiang LIU2, Feng JING1   

  1. 1. School of Information and Communication, National University of Defense Technology, Xi'an 710106, China
    2. School of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • Received:2021-02-15 Online:2021-10-01 Published:2021-11-04
  • Contact: Yifan ZHANG

Abstract:

The traditional radar high resolution range profile (HRRP) sequence recognition method relies on artificial feature extraction, and the existing deep learning method has the problem of gradient vanishing, which leads to the slow convergence speed and low recognition accuracy of the existing recognition methods. To solve these problems, an attention-based stacked long short-term memory (Attention-SLSTM) network model is proposed, which realizes the extraction of deeper abstract features of HRRP sequence by stacking multiple long short-term memory (LSTM) network layers.By replacing the activation function of the model, it slows down the gradient vanishing problem of stacked LSTM.The attention mechanism is introduced to calculate the distribution weight of feature sequence and use it in the classification and recognition step, which enhances the nonlinear expression ability of hidden layer features. Experimental results on the radar target recongnition standard data set MSTAR for different purposes show that the proposed method has faster convergence speed and better recognition performance, and has higher recognition rate compared with other existing methods, which proves the correctness and effectiveness of the proposed method.

Key words: high-resolution range profile sequence (HRRPs), attention mechanism, long short-term memory (LSTM) network, radar automatic target recognition (RATR)

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