Feature diversity for optimized human micro-doppler classification using multistatic radar. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 53(2), pp. 640-654. (doi:10.1109/TAES.2017.2651678) This is the author's final accepted version.There may be differences between this version and the published version.
FEATURE DIVERSITY FOR OPTIMIZED HUMAN MICRO-DOPPLER CLASSIFICATION USING MULTISTATIC RADARFrancesco Fioranelli (1) , Matthew Ritchie (2) , Sevgi Zübeyde Gürbüz (3) , Hugh Griffiths (2) (
AbstractThis paper investigates the selection of different combinations of features at different multistatic radar nodes, depending on scenario parameters, such as aspect angle to the target and signal-to-noise ratio, and radar parameters, such as dwell time, polarisation, and frequency band. Two sets of experimental data collected with the multistatic radar system NetRAD are analysed for two separate problems, namely the classification of unarmed vs potentially armed multiple personnel, and the personnel recognition of individuals based on walking gait. The results show that the overall classification accuracy can be significantly improved by taking into account feature diversity at each radar node depending on the environmental parameters and target behaviour, in comparison with the conventional approach of selecting the same features for all nodes.