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Classification of Unarmed/Armed Personnel Using the NetRAD Multistatic Radar for Micro-Doppler and Singular Value Decomposition Features

Fioranelli, F; Ritchie, M; Griffiths, H; (2015) Classification of Unarmed/Armed Personnel Using the NetRAD Multistatic Radar for Micro-Doppler and Singular Value Decomposition Features. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE , 12 (9) pp. 1933-1937. 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2439393. Green open access

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Abstract

In this letter, we present the use of experimental human micro-Doppler signature data gathered by a multistatic radar system to discriminate between unarmed and potentially armed personnel walking along different trajectories. Different ways of extracting suitable features from the spectrograms of the micro-Doppler signatures are discussed, particularly empirical features such as Doppler bandwidth, periodicity, and others, and features extracted from singular value decomposition (SVD) vectors. High classification accuracy of armed versus unarmed personnel (between 90% and 97% depending on the walking trajectory of the people) can be achieved with a single SVD-based feature, in comparison with using four empirical features. The impact on classification performance of different aspect angles and the benefit of combining multistatic information is also evaluated in this letter.

Type: Article
Title: Classification of Unarmed/Armed Personnel Using the NetRAD Multistatic Radar for Micro-Doppler and Singular Value Decomposition Features
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2439393
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2015.2439393
Language: English
Additional information: © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Keywords: Feature extractions, human detection, micro-Doppler, multistatic radar, singular value decomposition (SVD), target classification
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1468948
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