Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (11): 3086-3097.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2021.11.07

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Classification of radar clutter amplitude statistical model based on complex-valued convolutional-ResNet

Liang ZHANG, Wei YANG*, Weijie LI, Xiaoqi YANG, Yongxiang LIU   

  1. College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • Received:2021-05-24 Online:2021-11-01 Published:2021-11-12
  • Contact: Wei YANG

Abstract:

The classification of clutter amplitude statistical model is an important step in detecting targets under clutter background. However, the raw clutter data from radar are usually complex numbers, and most of current research on classifying clutter amplitude statistical models focuses on real data. Complex data contain not only amplitude but phase information as well, and hence are beneficial to the classification problem we concern. In order to study the classification of radar clutter amplitude statistical model, we propose to use complex-valued neural network to process simulated complex clutter data of high resolution range profile (HRRP).The following work is completed: First, in order toconstructcomplex-valued pooling layer, the complex-valued maximum pooling algorithm is defined and improved based on python programming language, and the classification effect of two kinds of complex-valued maximum pooling algorithm and complex-valued average pooling algorithm is compared by using complex-valued convolutional neural networks (CV-CNN) to classify the statistical model of clutter amplitude. The experimental results show that the complex-valued maximum pooling algorithm is more effective and the classification accuracy reaches 97.29%. Second, in order to further improve the classification accuracy, we constructed the complex-valued convolution-ResNet (CV-CRN), then, compared and analyzed the performance of CV-CRN through the experiments of classification of clutter amplitude statistical model. Experimental results have revealed that, the classification performance of CV-CRN was better than that of CV-CNN, with classification accuracy rate being 98.84% and good robustness.

Key words: clutter classification, high resolution range profile (HRRP), complex-valued convolutional-resNet (CV-CRN)

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