Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (3): 807-816.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.03.13

• Sensors and Signal Processing • Previous Articles    

Angle-guided attention-based wideband PD recognition method for aerodynamic targets

Jiakuan LI, Bo FENG, Hongliang LIU, Chunmao YE, Jizhou YU   

  1. Beijing Institute of Radio Measurement, Beijing 100854, China
  • Received:2023-11-21 Online:2025-03-28 Published:2025-04-18
  • Contact: Jizhou YU

Abstract:

Inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images are vital tools for radar automatic target recognition. However, acquiring high-resolution ISAR images requires prolonged radar illumination, posing significant limitations in practical engineering applications. In contrast, wideband pulse Doppler (PD) images can effectively save radar resources by accumulating images with short pulses. In this paper, the difference of modulation phenomena in images under different incident view angles is taken as the starting point, aiming to achieve higher recognition performance under limited resources, a convolutional neural network (CNN) with angle-guided attention is proposed. Firstly, through a hybrid attention residual module, the network focuses on the differences in the image space, effectively enhancing the representation capability of fine-grained target features. Subsequently, an angle-guided attention module is designed, embedding incident view angle information into the network through angle encoding, establishing a coupling between target feature representation and pose, further improving recognition accuracy. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed network is validated through the classification and recognition of measured wideband PD images of three types of aircraft.

Key words: wideband pulse Doppler (PD) image, target recognition, attention mechanism, angle-guided

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