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Abstract

Aimed at the deficiency of conventional parameter-level methods in radar specific emitter identification (SEI), which heavily relies on empirical experience and cannot adapt to the waveform change, a novel algorithm is proposed to extract specific features and identify in Hilbert-Huang transform domain. Firstly, 2-dimensional physical representation of emitter is formed with Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT). Based on this, 4 types of multi-view features are constructed, and the feature space is spanned by elaborating the extraction. Principal components, between-class similarity, spectrum entropy, and deep architecture are used to describe the subtle features. Finally, support vector machine (SVM) is selected as the classifier to realize identification to alleviate the small sample problem. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm realizes specific identification using 4 intentional modulations of simulated data. The selected 4 types of unintentional representations are feasible to discriminate identical emitters. Additionally, the proposed algorithm obtains higher accuracy than typical parameter-level methods in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) range [0, 20] dB.

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Dr. Zhiwen Zhou

Dr. Jing-Ke Zhang

Dr. Taotao Zhang