Radar emitter multi-label recognition based on residual network

Abstract

In low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments, the traditional radar emitter recognition (RER) method struggles to recognize multiple radar emitter signals in parallel. This paper proposes a multi-label classification and recognition method for multiple radar-emitter modulation types based on a residual network. This method can quickly perform parallel classification and recognition of multi-modulation radar time-domain aliasing signals under low SNRs. First, we perform time-frequency analysis on the received signal to extract the normalized time-frequency image through the short-time Fourier transform (STFT). The time-frequency distribution image is then denoised using a deep normalized convolutional neural network (DNCNN). Secondly, the multi-label classification and recognition model for multi-modulation radar emitter time-domain aliasing signals is established, and learning the characteristics of radar signal time-frequency distribution image dataset to achieve the purpose of training model. Finally, time-frequency image is recognized and classified through the model, thus completing the automatic classification and recognition of the time-domain aliasing signal. Simulation results show that the proposed method can classify and recognize radar emitter signals of different modulation types in parallel under low SNRs.