Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (11): 3040-3053.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2021.11.02

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Correlation research between deep features of HRRP sparse auto-encoder and scattering center features

Chaoying HUO*, Hua YAN, Xuejian FENG, Hongcheng YIN, Xiaoyu XING, Jinwen LU   

  1. Science and Technology on Electromagnetic Scattering Laboratory, Beijing Institute ofEnvironmental Features, Beijing 100854, China
  • Received:2021-02-23 Online:2021-11-01 Published:2021-11-12
  • Contact: Chaoying HUO

Abstract:

A sparse auto-encoder network is used to learn and train one-dimensional high resolution range profile (HRRP) of typical targets. A comprehensive weight coefficient is defined based on the weight coefficient matrix of each layer. By comparing the weight coefficient and dimension reduction feature with the scattering center feature, it is found that there is a certain correlation between the deep feature of sparse auto-encoder and the scattering center feature. And the physical meaning of the comprehensive weight coefficient and deep dimension reduction feature is explained in this paper. Firstly, a sparse auto-encoder network is constructed for HRRP. After deep learning, the weight coefficient after training and the feature after dimension reduction are obtained, and the correlation with the position feature and intensity distribution feature of the scattering center is studied. The results show that the comprehensive weight coefficient matrix is a dictionary-like coefficient matrix closely related to the scattering center, which reflects the possible molecule set of the strong scattering center position changing with the angle in the range domain; and the dimension reduction feature can realize the learning and extraction of the strong scattering center, which reflects the change of the strong scattering center position and intensity with the angle. Finally, the influence of the number of training layers and the dimension reduction dimension on the learning and training results is analyzed, which can guide the selection of the subsequent network parameters. For the first time, this paper studies the interpretability of deep learning features for radar HRRP data, which provides a useful guidance for the subsequent extensive application of deep learning in radar data processing.

Key words: high resolution range profile (HRRP), sparse auto-encoder, deep feature, scattering center feature

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