학술논문

Interference Suppression for an FM-Radio-Based Passive Radar via Deep Convolutional Autoencoder
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 60(1):106-118 Feb, 2024
Subject
Aerospace
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Clutter
Surveillance
Doppler effect
Convolution
Detectors
Radar
Passive radar
Convolutional autoencoder
deep learning
interference suppression
passive bistatic radar (PBR)
range-Doppler (RD) map
Language
ISSN
0018-9251
1557-9603
2371-9877
Abstract
Recently, the passive bistatic radar (PBR) that exploits frequency modulation (FM) radio transmitters as illuminators, has witnessed widespread usage owing to its various advantages. However, the characteristics of FM-radio-based PBR result in interference components in the range–Doppler (RD) map, which may increase false alarms. Therefore, this study proposes a method for suppressing interference components using a deep learning approach. The two main contributions of this study are as follows. First, a convolutional autoencoder model capable of effectively suppressing interference in the RD map of the PBR was proposed. Second, a synthetic RD map dataset generation method that can enable the autoencoder to operate robustly in PBR in a real environment was presented. Further, a performance comparison between the proposed method and existing methods using simulated data proved that the deep learning-based method exhibited superior target detection performance. Furthermore, using the data recorded by the PBR in a real environment, the proposed autoencoder model was shown to effectively suppress interference components in a real interference environment.