Radar Signal Intra-Pulse Modulation Recognition Based on Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder and Deep Convolutional Neural Network

Radar signal intra-pulse modulation recognition is an important technology in electronic warfare. A radar signal intra-pulse modulation recognition method based on convolutional denoising autoencoder (CDAE) and deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) is proposed in this paper. First, we use Cohen’s time-frequency distribution to convert radar signals into time-frequency images (TFIs). Then image preprocessing is applied to TFIs, including bilinear interpolation and amplitude normalization. Next, we design a CDAE to denoise and repair TFIs. Finally, we design a deep convolutional neural network based on Inception architecture to identify the processed TFIs. Simulation results demonstrate that CDAE effectively reduces the interference of noise on TFIs classification, and improves the classification performance at a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The DCNN architecture we designed makes good use of computing resources and has a good classification effect. The approach has good noise immunity and generalization. It can classify twelve kinds of modulation signals and an overall probability of successful recognition is more than 95% when the SNR is −9 dB.

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