Radar Spectrum Image Classification Based on Deep Learning

Abstract

With the continuous development and progress of science and technology, the increasingly complex electromagnetic environment and the research and development of new radar systems have led to the emergence of various radar signals. Traditional methods of radar emitter identification cannot meet the needs of current practical applications. For the purpose of classification and recognition of radar emitter signals, this paper proposes an improved EfficientNetv2-s classification method based on deep learning for more precise classification and recognition of radar radiation source signals. Using 16 different types of radar signal parameters from the signal parameter setting table, the proposed method generates random data sets consisting of spectrum images with varying amplitude. The proposed method replaces two-dimensional convolution in EfficientNetV2 with one-dimensional convolution. Additionally, the channel attention mechanism of the EfficientNetv2-s is optimized and modified to obtain attention weights without dimensional reduction, resulting in superior accuracy. Compared with other deep-learning image-classification methods, the test results of this method have better classification accuracy on the test set: the top1 accuracy reaches 98.12%, which is 0.17~3.12% higher than other methods. Furthermore, the proposed method has lower complexity compared to most methods.