A deep-learning method for radar micro-doppler spectrogram restoration

A deep-learning method for radar micro-doppler spectrogram restoration

He, Yuan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Li, Xinyu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Li, Runlong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Wang, J. (TU Delft Microwave Sensing, Signals & Systems)
Jing, Xiaojun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

2020

Radio frequency interference, which makes it difficult to produce high-quality radar spectrograms, is a major issue for micro-Doppler-based human activity recognition (HAR). In this paper, we propose a deep-learning-based method to detect and cut out the interference in spectrograms. Then, we restore the spectrograms in the cut-out region. First, a fully convolutional neural network (FCN) is employed to detect and remove the interference. Then, a coarse-to-fine generative adversarial network (GAN) is proposed to restore the part of the spectrogram that is affected by the interferences. The simulated motion capture (MOCAP) spectrograms and the measured radar spectrograms with interference are used to verify the proposed method. Experimental results from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives show that the proposed method can mitigate the interference and restore high-quality radar spectrograms. Furthermore, the comparison experiments also demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.

Fully convolutional network
Generative adversarial network
Image restoration
Radar micro-doppler spectrogram

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a5ab144e-5f12-4fff-9a98-119bfced7932

https://doi.org/10.3390/s20175007

1424-8220

Sensors, 20 (17), 1-15

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© 2020 Yuan He, Xinyu Li, Runlong Li, J. Wang, Xiaojun Jing