A novel method for multi-targets ISAR imaging

A novel multi-targets ISAR imaging method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and modified CLEAN technique is proposed in this paper. First, multi-targets are modeled as several separated group-targets in which translational motion of each target is analogous. And then, translational motion of each group-target is modeled as a polynomial, and the polynomial coefficient is estimated via PSO. Then focused image of the group-target can be obtained and extracted via a modified CLEAN technique. Meanwhile, each target can be segmented and extracted based on clustering number estimation and K-means clustering algorithm. Finally, better focused image of each target would be obtained through further traditional mono-target imaging processing. Experimental results verify the validity of the proposed method.

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