HRRP target recognition based on kernel joint discriminant analysis

With the improvement of radar resolution, the dimension of the high resolution range profile (HRRP) has increased. In order to solve the small sample problem caused by the increase of HRRP dimension, an algorithm based on kernel joint discriminant analysis (KJDA) is proposed. Compared with the traditional feature extraction methods, KJDA possesses stronger discriminative ability in the kernel feature space. K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and kernel support vector machine (KSVM) are applied as feature classifiers to verify the classification effect. Experimental results on the measured aircraft datasets show that KJDA can reduce the dimensionality, and improve target recognition performance.