Lei Liu1, Feng Zhou1, Yongqiang Guo2, Mingliang Tao1, Pange Sun1, Zijing Zhang1
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I. INTRODUCTION
In multi-targets ISAR imaging, the motion of multi-targets
can generally be divided into three classes: 1) all the targets
share analogous translational motion; 2) translational motion of
different target differs with each other; and 3) partial targets
share analogous translational motion. It is clearly noted that
class 1) and 2) is just an exceptional case of class 3). Many
effective methods have been proposed. For the situation of
class 1), range profiles of each target almost occupy the same
range cells because of analogous motion parameters. Hence,
sub-echoes of single target cannot be extracted directly from
the coupled range echoes. However, coarse imaging results of
multi-targets can be obtained via traditional mono-target
imaging method [1]-[2], and then different target could be
extracted based on image segmentation. Finally, high
resolution focused image could be acquired through
performing traditional mono-target imaging processing to each
target echo. For the situation of class 2), the Doppler frequency
produced by the translational motion is a linear frequency
modulated signal of which the chirp rate is proportional to the
acceleration of the target. Hence, different target could be
segmented and extracted on the cross-range time frequency
planar [2]-[9]. However, the acceleration of different target
must be distinguishable to guarantee the possibility of
separating them. Several line or curve detection based methods,
for instance Hough transform [10]-[12] and particle swarm
optimization (PSO) [13] are utilized to separate the range
profile of each target directly. Convictive results could be
obtained when the range profile history of different target is
apparently distinguishable. However, the performance of the
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V1 ,D1 , N1
St f r
Kq
exp j
q 1 k 1
4S f r f c
R q ,k W (3)
C
VQ ,D Q , N Q
R q ,k W
V2 ,D 2 , N 2
Radar
(a)
V
Group-target q
1
1
vqW D qW 2 N qW 3
2
6
xq ,k cos ZW yq ,k sin ZW
(4)
| rq W yq ,k xq ,k ZW
where rq W denotes the translational motion of group-target
Z
U
Radar
(b)
Fig. 1 (a) Imaging geometry of multi-targets; (b) turn-table model of grouptarget q
C
q 1 k 1
2 (1)
2R q ,k W
4S f c
exp j
R q ,k W exp jSJ t
C
C
where t denotes the fast time, and W represents the slow time.
K q is the totally number of scattering centers in group-target
1 t d TP / 2
denotes the range rectangle
q . rect >t @
0 t ! TP / 2
window. R q ,k W is the instantaneous range between radar
and the k-th scatter of group-target q at instant W . f c and J
represent the carrier frequency and chirp rate, respectively.
Perform discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to the received
echoes, one can get
Q Kq
4S f r f c
S 2 f r ,W St f r exp j
R q ,k W (2)
C
q 1 k 1
2
S3 n, m St n exp j
rq m
C
q 1
(5)
Kq
4S n'f r f c
exp j
yq,k xq,kZm PRI
C
k 1
1
1
2
3
vq m PRI D q m PRI N q m PRI (6)
2
6
If the translational motion of a given group-target u
( 1 d u d Q ) denoted by ru can be obtained via the estimation
of the polynomial coefficient, the translational motion of (5)
can be compensated via
rq m
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4S n'f r f c
S 3 n, m exp j
ru m
C
S 4 n, m
St n
Kq
k 1
q 1
exp j
exp j
4S n'f r f c
rq m ru m (7)
C
4S n'f r f c
yq ,k xq ,k Z m PRI
C
I h, l ; r 2 I h, l ; r 2
u
u
ln
(10)
S
S
h 1 l 1
I h, l; r
u
h 1 l 1
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50m / s, 40m / s
2
En I ru
(a)
30m / s,50m / s
2
50m / s, 30m / s
2
(b)
Fig. 2 Variation of the final image entropies with compensated translational
motion parameters. (a) 3D variation of final image entropies; (b) 2D variation
of final image entropies
(11)
t
t 1
t
(b)
z i z i i
where and z represent the velocity and position of each
particle. i represents the notation of each particle while I is
total number of the particles. z t , gbest denotes the global optimal
position that the swarm has passed while z ti , pbest represents the
personal best position each particle has passed. c1 and c2 are
the acceleration coefficients whose typical values are 2.0. r1
and r2 denote the random value ranging from 0 to 1. The
combination of c and r determine the relative influence of
the last two terms in (11) (a) which represent the internal
study and mutual information exchange respectively. I
denotes the inertia weight coefficient which is usually set to
0.8. More detailed explanation on PSO can be found in [14][17]. The detailed procedures on the estimation of the
polynomial coefficients are presented below.
Step 1): Obtain the compressed echo S 3 . Set polynomial
coefficient of the translational motion of the u -th group-target
Pu 0 .
Step 2): Initial the total number I of particles and the
0
i
t , gbest
argmin En z
1di d I
t , gbest
i
Initial
zti , gbest
zi0
and
` .
1 I
i [ or t ! tmax ,
PI i 1
1di d I
continue the following step. Otherwise, go to step 3).
1 I
i [ means that the average velocity of the particles
PI i 1
is too small to search better position. And tmax limits the
maximum iterated times.
Step 5): Compute the image entropy E pre based on the
and z t , gbest
I
where I
remain
u
remain
u
I Pu Icu
(13)
represents the remained image after the MCLEAN processing. Once obtaining the extracted image I cu of
(14)
DFTr IDFTa Iuremain
where IDFTa denotes performing IDFT along the cross-range
dimension and DFTr represents DFT along the range
dimension. Update u by u u 1 and then go back to Step 2).
Step 5): Once the image of each target in group-target u
has been segmented, traditional mono-target ISAR imaging
processing is utilized to improve the image quality.
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(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Fig. 4 Imaging results. (a) Imaging result of target 1 in group-target 1. (b)
Imaging result of target 2 in group-target 2. (c) Imaging result of group-target
3. (d) Imaging result of group-target 4.
(a)
(b)
Fig. 3 (a) Simulated scattering model; (b) Range compressed echo
Target
number
Target 1
Target 2
B. Experimental Results
The estimation results of the polynomial coefficient of each
group-target are presented in TABLE II. However, these
polynomial coefficients have been transformed into the
expression of velocity, acceleration and jerk according to (6).
Totally three group-targets have been extracted of which the
transformed translational motion parameters are presented in
the 2nd column of TABLE II. Compared with the true value in
the 3rd column, the proposed method achieves satisfied
performance with very tiny estimation error. According to the
4th column of TABLE II, the estimated group-targets are
consistent with the corresponding simulated targets.
TABLE II Polynomial coefficient estimation result of each group-target
Estimated polynomial
True polynomial
Group
True
coefficient
coefficient
-target
target
[velocity, acceleration,
[velocity, acceleration,
number
u
jerk]
jerk]
[29.92m/s, 100.01m/s2, [30m/s, 100m/s2, Target
u=1
240.33m/s3]
240m/s3]
3and 4
[49.88m/s, -59.99m/s2,
[50m/s, -60m/s2,
u=2
Target 2
240.08m/s3]
240m/s3]
2
2
[-50.11m/s, 80.04m/s ,
[-50m/s, 80m/s ,
u=3
Target 1
180.50m/s3]
180m/s3]
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