This work addresses the problem of range–Doppler multiple target detection in a radar system in the presence of slow-time correlated and heavy-tailed distributed clutter. Conventional target detection algorithms assume Gaussian-distributed clutter, but their performance is significantly degraded in the presence of correlated heavy-tailed distributed clutter. Derivation of optimal detection algorithms with heavy-tailed distributed clutter is analytically intractable. Furthermore, the clutter distribution is frequently unknown. This work proposes a deep learning-based approach for multiple target detection in the range–Doppler domain. The proposed approach is based on a unified neural network (NN) model to process the time-domain radar signal for a variety of signal-to-clutter-plus-noise ratios (SCNRs) and clutter distributions, simplifying the detector architecture and the NN training procedure. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated in various experiments using recorded radar echoes, and via simulations, it is shown that the proposed method outperforms the conventional cell-averaging constant false-alarm rate (CFAR), the trimmed-mean CFAR, and the adaptive normalized matched-filter detectors in terms of probability of detection in the majority of tested SCNRs and clutter scenarios.


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    Title :

    Neural Network-Based Multitarget Detection Within Correlated Heavy-Tailed Clutter


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    Publication date :

    2023-10-01


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    4628116 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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