Radio frequency (RF) transient classification using sparse representations over learned dictionaries

Daniela I. Moody; Steven P. Brumby; Kary L. Myers; Norma H. Pawley

doi:10.1117/12.898894

27 September 2011 Radio frequency (RF) transient classification using sparse representations over learned dictionaries

Daniela I. Moody, Steven P. Brumby, Kary L. Myers, Norma H. Pawley

Proceedings Volume 8138, Wavelets and Sparsity XIV; 81381S (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.898894
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Automatic classification of transitory or pulsed radio frequency (RF) signals is of particular interest in persistent surveillance and remote sensing applications. Such transients are often acquired in noisy, cluttered environments, and may be characterized by complex or unknown analytical models, making feature extraction and classification difficult. We propose a fast, adaptive classification approach based on non-analytical dictionaries learned from data. We compare two dictionary learning methods from the image analysis literature, the K-SVD algorithm and Hebbian learning, and extend them for use with RF data. Both methods allow us to learn discriminative RF dictionaries directly from data without relying on analytical constraints or additional knowledge about the expected signal characteristics. We then use a pursuit search over the learned dictionaries to generate sparse classification features in order to identify time windows that contain a target pulse. In this paper we compare the two dictionary learning methods and discuss how their performance changes as a function of dictionary training parameters. We demonstrate that learned dictionary techniques are suitable for pulsed RF analysis and present results with varying background clutter and noise levels.

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Daniela I. Moody, Steven P. Brumby, Kary L. Myers, and Norma H. Pawley "Radio frequency (RF) transient classification using sparse representations over learned dictionaries", Proc. SPIE 8138, Wavelets and Sparsity XIV, 81381S (27 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.898894

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