Dual-Band HRRP Fusion Recognition via Wavelet Decomposition Embedded Autoencoder

High-resolution range profile (HRRP) is a crucial technique for radar target recognition. Due to the coupling of azimuthal scattering information and aspect sensitivity, fine target recognition using HRRP remains challenging. One way to mitigate HRRP aspect sensitivity is through enhancing the dimensionality of radar information acquisition. Therefore, this paper proposes a Dual-Band HRRP Fusion Recognition Model via Wavelet Decomposition Embedded Autoencoder (DF-WD-AENet). The method we proposed mainly comprises two modules. Firstly, the autoencoder model based on wavelet decomposition (WD-AEM) achieves constraint on feature information, making it better suited for dual-band fusion. Next is the dual-band information fusion module (DFM), in which we achieved the interaction and fusion of feature information through convolutional block attention module (CBAM) and omni-dimensional dynamic convolution (ODConv), and used a fusion loss function to train the model. Experiment shows that the recognition rate of our method is 7.73% higher than that of single-band, proving the effectiveness of the proposed method.