Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (10): 3116-3121.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.10.15

• Sensors and Signal Processing • Previous Articles    

Zero-shot identification for stealth target by inverse synthetic aperture imaging radar

Chunhua ZHOU1,2,3,*, Weiwei WEI1,2,3, Xuecheng ZHANG4, Xin ZHENG5, Mianzhi CHENG1   

  1. 1. Shanghai Radio Equipment Research Institute, Shanghai 201109, China
    2. Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Target Identification and Environment Perception, Shanghai 201109, China
    3. Traffic Perception Radar Technology Research & Development Center of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Shanghai 201109, China
    4. The 3rd Military Representative Office of the Ministry of Army Equipment, Shanghai 200031, China
    5. Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, Shanghai 201109, China
  • Received:2021-10-26 Online:2023-09-25 Published:2023-10-11
  • Contact: Chunhua ZHOU

Abstract:

For the zero-shot learning and recognition problem of stealth targets for inverse synthetic aperture imaging radar (ISAR), the existed algorithms cannot recognize the new category of targets that have not appeared in the training process. A target learning and recognition method with zero-shot learning (ZSL) is proposed for solving the problem above. Firstly, based on three dimensional grid physical model of the aircraft-class dynamic target, the FEKO electromagnetic field simulation software programming is used to realize the ISAR-visible source target image data generation. Secondly, on this basis, the text semantic feature expression of detail attributes for different aircraft-class targets is formed. In the novel-type proposed algorithm's network model, two variation autoencoders are used to generate image and semantic features respectively, so that the network can learn the modal's invariant feature expression. The network is trained with visible category data to obtain the model that can generate image features based on semantic information. The training recognition process adopts the targets of the new category which are unknown and invisible for the proposed learning model. The unknown and invisible image feature information of the new target is generated from the invisible and unknown text semantic of the new category, which supports the recognition for the new targets which are unknown and invisible. The accuracy rate of the recognition for the new category targets is up to 75% according to the relevant statistic result, which means an important military and strategic significance.

Key words: inverse synthetic aperture imaging radar (ISAR), zero-shot learning (ZSL), stealth target

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