A Complete Framework of Radar Pulse Detection and Modulation Classification for Cognitive EW

In this paper, we consider automatic radar pulse detection and intra-pulse modulation classification for cognitive electronic warfare applications. In this manner, we introduce an end-to-end framework for detection and classification of radar pulses. Our approach is complete, i.e., we provide raw radar signal at the input side and produce categorical output at the output. We use short time Fourier transform to obtain time-frequency image of the signal. Hough transform is used to detect pulses in time-frequency images and pulses are represented with a single line. Then, convolutional neural networks are used for pulse classification. In experiments, we provide classification results at different SNR levels.

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