The target on the sea surface is complex and difficult to detect due to the interference of backscattered returns from the sea surface illuminated by the radar pulse. Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) has been us...The target on the sea surface is complex and difficult to detect due to the interference of backscattered returns from the sea surface illuminated by the radar pulse. Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) has been used successfully to extract the time-domain Hurst exponent of sea-clutter series. Since the frequency of the sea clutter mainly concentrates around Doppler center so that we consider to extract frequency-do- main fractal characterization and then detect a weak target within sea clutter by using the difference of frequency-domain fractal characterization. The generalized detrended fluctuation analysis (GDFA) is more flexible than traditional DFA owing to its smoothing action for the clutters. In this paper, we apply the GDFA to evaluate the generalized Hurst exponent of sea-clutter series in the frequency domain. The difference of generalized Hurst exponents between different sea-clutter range bins would be used to determine whether the target exists. Moreover, some simulations with the real IPIX radar data have also been demonstrated in order to suooort this conclusion.展开更多
The aim of this paper is to solve the problems of multitarget tracking in clutter. Firstly, the data association of measurement-to-target is formulated as an integer programming problem. Through using the linear progr...The aim of this paper is to solve the problems of multitarget tracking in clutter. Firstly, the data association of measurement-to-target is formulated as an integer programming problem. Through using the linear programming (LP) based branchand-bound method and adjusting the constraint conditions, an optimal set integer programming (OSIP) algorithm is then proposed for tracking multiple non-maneuvering targets in clutter. For the case of maneuvering targets, this paper introduces the OSIP algorithm into the filtering step of the interacting multiple model (IMM) algorithm resulting in the IMM based on OSIP algorithm. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations show that the presented algorithms can obtain superior estimations even in the case of high density noises.展开更多
A basic assumption of most recently proposed waveform design algorithms is that the target impulse response is a known deterministic function or a stochastic process with a known power spectral density (PSD). Howeve...A basic assumption of most recently proposed waveform design algorithms is that the target impulse response is a known deterministic function or a stochastic process with a known power spectral density (PSD). However, it is well-known that a target impulse response is neither easily nor accurately obtained; besides it changes sharply with attitude angles. Both of the aforementioned cases complicate the waveform design process. In this paper, an adaptive robust waveform selection method for unknown target detection in clutter is proposed. The target impulse response is considered to be unknown but belongs to a known uncertainty set. An adaptive waveform library is devised by using a signal-to-clutter-plus-noise ratio (SCNR)- based optimal waveform design method. By applying the minimax robust waveform selection method, the optimal robust waveform is selected to ensure the lowest performance bound of the unknown target detection in clutter. Results show that the adaptive waveform library outperforms the predefined linear frequency modulation (LFM) waveform library on the SCNR bound.展开更多
Adjusting radar transmitted waveform to its environment is one of the most important roles in cognitive radar;having the capability of updating transmitted waveforms in different applications is a key point. It has be...Adjusting radar transmitted waveform to its environment is one of the most important roles in cognitive radar;having the capability of updating transmitted waveforms in different applications is a key point. It has been shown in many studies that if the waveform is designed according to the target and clutter characteristics, the detection performance will improve significantly. The uncertainty of the target radar signatures decreases via maximizing MI and the probability of extended target detection is increases via maximizing SNR. In this paper, a waveform design approach based on maximizing both SNR and MI and with regard to target and clutter shape is presented. The detection performance for proposed waveform is compared with previous proposed waveforms. The present paper compares different scenarios of target and clutter and using the probability of detection as a cost function to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of each waveform in different scenarios which are mainly discussed in this text. The desired waveform for cognitive radar is selected based on simultaneously making compromises between SNR and MI, which plays an important role in cognitive radar systems and based on the assumption addressed in the text, the best waveform transmitted into the environment.展开更多
Dim target detection from sea clutter is one of the difficult topics in ocean remote sensing application. By aiming at the shortcoming of false alarms when using track before detect (TBD) based on dynamic programmin...Dim target detection from sea clutter is one of the difficult topics in ocean remote sensing application. By aiming at the shortcoming of false alarms when using track before detect (TBD) based on dynamic programming, a new discrimination method called statistics of direction histogram (SDH) is proposed, which is based on different features of trajectories between the true target and false one. Moreover, a new series of discrimination schemes of SDH and Local Extreme Value method (LEV) are studied and applied to simulate the actually measured radar data. The results show that the given discrimination is effective to reduce false alarms during dim targets detection.展开更多
Multiple maneuvedng targets signal processing in high frequency radar is challenging due to the following difficulties: the interference between signals is severe because of significant spread of the target Doppler s...Multiple maneuvedng targets signal processing in high frequency radar is challenging due to the following difficulties: the interference between signals is severe because of significant spread of the target Doppler spectrum, the low signal to clutter ratio (SCR) environment degrades the performance of signal process- ing algorithms. This paper addresses this challenging problem by using an S2-method and an adaptive clutter rejection scheme. The proposed S2-method improves the S-method by eliminating inter- ference between signals, and thus it enables multi-target signals to be reconstructed individually. The proposed adaptive clutter rejec- tion scheme is based on an adaptive notch filter, which is designed according to the envelop of the clutter spectrum. Experiments with simulated targets added into radar sea clutter echo and real air target data illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
海杂波背景下的海上小目标是海洋雷达探测的重难点。针对特征空间内海杂波与小目标特征可分性问题,提出了量化特征之间可分性的度量标准——重叠系数。通过开展对海探测试验获取的2~5级海况实测数据,分别提取时域特征相对平均幅度(Relat...海杂波背景下的海上小目标是海洋雷达探测的重难点。针对特征空间内海杂波与小目标特征可分性问题,提出了量化特征之间可分性的度量标准——重叠系数。通过开展对海探测试验获取的2~5级海况实测数据,分别提取时域特征相对平均幅度(Relative Average Amplitude,RAA)、相对峰值峰高(Relative Peak Height,RPH)、时域熵值均值(Time domain Entropy Mean,TEM),频域特征相对多普勒峰高(Relative Doppler Peak Height,RDPH)、相对多普勒向量熵(Relative Vector Entropy,RVE)、频域熵值二阶矩(Second moment of Frequency domain Entropy,SOFE),计算出重叠系数。通过特征检测器进行检测性能对比,低海况下,相对平均幅度、相对峰值峰高、时域熵值均值、相对多普勒峰高、频域熵值二阶矩特征之间重叠系数均在0.3以下,对应特征检测器的检测概率均在85%以上;高海况下其特征之间重叠系数均在0.7以上,对应特征检测器的检测概率均在50%以下。相对多普勒向量熵在4种海况下可分性较小,其对应的特征检测器性能较差。结果验证了重叠系数在一维特征选择的应用可行性,为多特征融合目标检测提供了一定支持。展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China Project under contract Nos 41276187 and 41076119the Scientific Research Foundation for Introducing Talents,Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology under contract No.20110310Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation under contract No.BK2011008
文摘The target on the sea surface is complex and difficult to detect due to the interference of backscattered returns from the sea surface illuminated by the radar pulse. Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) has been used successfully to extract the time-domain Hurst exponent of sea-clutter series. Since the frequency of the sea clutter mainly concentrates around Doppler center so that we consider to extract frequency-do- main fractal characterization and then detect a weak target within sea clutter by using the difference of frequency-domain fractal characterization. The generalized detrended fluctuation analysis (GDFA) is more flexible than traditional DFA owing to its smoothing action for the clutters. In this paper, we apply the GDFA to evaluate the generalized Hurst exponent of sea-clutter series in the frequency domain. The difference of generalized Hurst exponents between different sea-clutter range bins would be used to determine whether the target exists. Moreover, some simulations with the real IPIX radar data have also been demonstrated in order to suooort this conclusion.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Fundation of China (61203238 61134005+5 种基金 60921001 90916024 91116016)the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (2012CB8212002012CB821201)the National Science Foundation for Postdoctoral Scientists of China (2012M520140)
文摘The aim of this paper is to solve the problems of multitarget tracking in clutter. Firstly, the data association of measurement-to-target is formulated as an integer programming problem. Through using the linear programming (LP) based branchand-bound method and adjusting the constraint conditions, an optimal set integer programming (OSIP) algorithm is then proposed for tracking multiple non-maneuvering targets in clutter. For the case of maneuvering targets, this paper introduces the OSIP algorithm into the filtering step of the interacting multiple model (IMM) algorithm resulting in the IMM based on OSIP algorithm. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations show that the presented algorithms can obtain superior estimations even in the case of high density noises.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61171133the Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hunan Province under Grant No.11JJ1010the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant No.20124307110013
文摘A basic assumption of most recently proposed waveform design algorithms is that the target impulse response is a known deterministic function or a stochastic process with a known power spectral density (PSD). However, it is well-known that a target impulse response is neither easily nor accurately obtained; besides it changes sharply with attitude angles. Both of the aforementioned cases complicate the waveform design process. In this paper, an adaptive robust waveform selection method for unknown target detection in clutter is proposed. The target impulse response is considered to be unknown but belongs to a known uncertainty set. An adaptive waveform library is devised by using a signal-to-clutter-plus-noise ratio (SCNR)- based optimal waveform design method. By applying the minimax robust waveform selection method, the optimal robust waveform is selected to ensure the lowest performance bound of the unknown target detection in clutter. Results show that the adaptive waveform library outperforms the predefined linear frequency modulation (LFM) waveform library on the SCNR bound.
文摘Adjusting radar transmitted waveform to its environment is one of the most important roles in cognitive radar;having the capability of updating transmitted waveforms in different applications is a key point. It has been shown in many studies that if the waveform is designed according to the target and clutter characteristics, the detection performance will improve significantly. The uncertainty of the target radar signatures decreases via maximizing MI and the probability of extended target detection is increases via maximizing SNR. In this paper, a waveform design approach based on maximizing both SNR and MI and with regard to target and clutter shape is presented. The detection performance for proposed waveform is compared with previous proposed waveforms. The present paper compares different scenarios of target and clutter and using the probability of detection as a cost function to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of each waveform in different scenarios which are mainly discussed in this text. The desired waveform for cognitive radar is selected based on simultaneously making compromises between SNR and MI, which plays an important role in cognitive radar systems and based on the assumption addressed in the text, the best waveform transmitted into the environment.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61001137)the Pre-Research Foundation(Grant No.9140A07020311HK0116)
文摘Dim target detection from sea clutter is one of the difficult topics in ocean remote sensing application. By aiming at the shortcoming of false alarms when using track before detect (TBD) based on dynamic programming, a new discrimination method called statistics of direction histogram (SDH) is proposed, which is based on different features of trajectories between the true target and false one. Moreover, a new series of discrimination schemes of SDH and Local Extreme Value method (LEV) are studied and applied to simulate the actually measured radar data. The results show that the given discrimination is effective to reduce false alarms during dim targets detection.
基金supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(61032011)
文摘Multiple maneuvedng targets signal processing in high frequency radar is challenging due to the following difficulties: the interference between signals is severe because of significant spread of the target Doppler spectrum, the low signal to clutter ratio (SCR) environment degrades the performance of signal process- ing algorithms. This paper addresses this challenging problem by using an S2-method and an adaptive clutter rejection scheme. The proposed S2-method improves the S-method by eliminating inter- ference between signals, and thus it enables multi-target signals to be reconstructed individually. The proposed adaptive clutter rejec- tion scheme is based on an adaptive notch filter, which is designed according to the envelop of the clutter spectrum. Experiments with simulated targets added into radar sea clutter echo and real air target data illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
文摘海杂波背景下的海上小目标是海洋雷达探测的重难点。针对特征空间内海杂波与小目标特征可分性问题,提出了量化特征之间可分性的度量标准——重叠系数。通过开展对海探测试验获取的2~5级海况实测数据,分别提取时域特征相对平均幅度(Relative Average Amplitude,RAA)、相对峰值峰高(Relative Peak Height,RPH)、时域熵值均值(Time domain Entropy Mean,TEM),频域特征相对多普勒峰高(Relative Doppler Peak Height,RDPH)、相对多普勒向量熵(Relative Vector Entropy,RVE)、频域熵值二阶矩(Second moment of Frequency domain Entropy,SOFE),计算出重叠系数。通过特征检测器进行检测性能对比,低海况下,相对平均幅度、相对峰值峰高、时域熵值均值、相对多普勒峰高、频域熵值二阶矩特征之间重叠系数均在0.3以下,对应特征检测器的检测概率均在85%以上;高海况下其特征之间重叠系数均在0.7以上,对应特征检测器的检测概率均在50%以下。相对多普勒向量熵在4种海况下可分性较小,其对应的特征检测器性能较差。结果验证了重叠系数在一维特征选择的应用可行性,为多特征融合目标检测提供了一定支持。