基于多域标准化与类条件分布对齐的海面小目标雷达分类方法
Radar Classification Method for Small Targets on the Sea Surface Based on Multi-Domain Standardization and Class-Conditional Distribution Alignment
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摘要: 海面小目标的精准分类,是提升海洋监测与国防安全能力的关键技术挑战。海杂波背景下海面小目标回波弱、非平稳性强,且不同雷达体制下数据分布存在差异,导致基于单一域特征的分类方法难以同时兼顾目标的雷达散射截面积起伏特性、运动特性及跨设备鲁棒性。针对上述问题,本文提出一种基于多域标准化与类条件分布对齐的海面小目标雷达分类方法。首先,设计了一种多域特征标准化预处理流程,对目标的幅度序列、多普勒幅度谱及时频分布进行统一归一化;随后,构建了一个集成多尺度双注意力(Multi-Scale Dual Attention, MSDA)模块的三分支并行特征提取网络,时频分支采用基于自校准卷积的二维特征提取结构,幅度序列分支和多普勒分支采用多尺度双注意力模块,以分别建模局部变化与长时序依赖;最后,在特征融合阶段,引入类条件最大均值差异(Class Condition-Maximum Mean Difference, CC-MMD)约束,在公共潜在空间内对同类样本的跨域特征分布进行对齐,以改善漂浮小球和漂浮船只等难分样本的类间混叠问题。实验在IPIX、CSIR及实测无人机数据集上进行验证,结果表明,相较于仅采用时频特征的单分支网络,所提方法总体分类准确率由0.7665 提升至0.8155;相较于未采用类条件对齐的三域融合网络,准确率进一步提升约2.4%。结果说明,所提方法能够提高海面小目标分类性能,并对难分样本识别具有较好的鲁棒性。Abstract: Accurate classification of small sea-surface targets remains a critical technological challenge for advancing marine monitoring and defense security capabilities. In sea clutter environments, radar echoes from small surface targets are characterized by low signal strength and pronounced non-stationarity. Furthermore, distributional discrepancies across different radar systems limit the effectiveness of classification approaches based on single-domain features, which are unable to simultaneously capture radar cross-section variability, motion dynamics, and cross-platform generalization. To address these limitations, this study proposes a radar-based classification framework for small sea-surface targets that integrates multi-domain standardization with class-conditional distribution alignment. First, a multi-domain feature standardization preprocessing pipeline was developed to achieve consistent normalization of the target amplitude sequence, Doppler amplitude spectrum, and time-frequency representation. Subsequently, a three-branch parallel feature extraction network incorporating a Multi-Scale Dual Attention (MSDA) module was developed. The time-frequency branch employs a two-dimensional feature extraction architecture based on self-calibrated convolutions. In contrast, the amplitude sequence branch and the Doppler branch leverage the multi-scale dual attention module to capture local variations and long-range temporal dependencies, respectively. During the feature fusion stage, a class-conditional maximum mean discrepancy (CC-MMD) constraint was incorporated to align the cross-domain feature distributions of samples belonging to the same class within a shared latent space. This process effectively mitigates inter-class confusion, particularly for challenging targets such as floating spheres and boats. Experiments are conducted on the IPIX, CSIR, and measured UAV datasets. The results show that, compared with a single-branch network based exclusively on time-frequency features, the proposed method improves overall classification accuracy from 0.7665 to 0.8155. In addition, relative to the three-domain fusion network without class-conditional alignment, the accuracy was further increased by approximately 2.4%. These findings demonstrate that the proposed method significantly improves the classification performance of small sea-surface targets and provides robust discrimination for visually and statistically similar classes.
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