MIDW‐Net: A multi‐tasking network architecture for radar intra‐pulse parameter description

Abstract

Abstract The automatic modulation recognition (AMR) of radar signals has become a popular research topic in recent years. However, most algorithms focus on the type of signal modulation and lack further understanding of the signal. To address this gap, a network architecture for multi‐tasking intra‐pulse description words (MIDW‐Net) is proposed herein. In this framework, the denoising algorithm employs a convolutional denoising autoencoder, which is an effective method for suppressing noise interference and preserving signal information. The multiscale feature‐extraction capability of a feature pyramid network (FPN) is utilized to expand the perceptual domain without losing the high‐frequency features of the image. Finally, AMR and modulation parameter estimation are accomplished via multitask learning. Experiments performed on simulated radar signals using four intra‐pulse descriptors verified the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Keywords

• image processing
• neural nets
• parameter estimation
• radar signal processing