An Improved LPI Radar Waveform Recognition Framework With LDC-Unet and SSR-Loss

Low probability of intercept (LPI) radar signals have been widely used in modern radars due to the advantages of being hardly intercepted by non-cooperative receivers. Therefore, the waveform recognition of LPI radar signals has recently gained increasing attention. In this letter, an improved LPI radar waveform recognition framework with local dense connection U-net and novel loss function is proposed. Specifically, radar signals are transformed into time-frequency images (TFIs) through time-frequency analysis techniques. Then, the local dense connection U-net is proposed to reduce interference of noise and enhance TFIs features. Finally, the recognition task is implemented through a deep convolutional neural network, which is trained with a noise-robust loss function called SSR-loss. Compared with other existing LPI radar waveform recognition frameworks, our method can obtain a significant improvement in recognition accuracy under noise conditions. When signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is as low as −10 dB, the overall probability of successful recognition on twelve kinds of typical modulated signals can reach up to 91.17%.