Abstract:

The development of radar high resolution range profile(HRRP)non-cooperative targets recognition technology is mainly limited by two aspects:(1) Due to the low observation frequency of non-cooperative targets,the number of labeled HRRPs is insufficient,making non-cooperative HRRP based target recognition a typical few-shot recognition problem,which is still a hot and difficult issue without definite conclusion in the academia.(2) The existing HRRP based target recognition methods are mostly based on the hypothesis of complete dataset,making them mismatch with non-cooperative target recognition in few-shot setting.In this paper,we put aside the complete hypothesis and propose an HRRP based few-shot target recognition method with CNN-SSD.The proposed method first uses a complete training HRRP containing 45 classes of cooperative targets to learn an initial category-independent feature extractor,on the basis of which we further utilize the model sequential self-distillation mechanism to obtain a more generalized feature extractor.Finally,the generalization ability of the extracted features is evaluated on unseen non-cooperative targets during training.Experimental results on self-simulated HRRP dataset reveal that the proposed method can achieve an average recognition rates of 61.26%,84.69% and 92.52% respectively when only 1,5 and 10 annotated HRRPs of non-cooperative targets are available.

Key words: radar target recognition, few shot learning, feature extraction, high resolution range profile, convolutional neural networks, sequential self-distillation, radar target recognition, few shot learning, feature extraction, high resolution range profile, convolutional neural networks, sequential self-distillation