A novel micro-motion feature extraction and estimation method for multicomponent signal

Abstract

The fluent ship targets with micro-motion which is caused by oceanic waves leading to defocused images. Due to the large size ship, there is a multi-component echo signal in one range bin, thus it is crucial to extract the micro-Doppler (m-D) features quickly and precisely to refocus the images. This paper puts forward a novel micro-motion feature extraction and estimation method. The method is composed of two steps, and the first step is preprocessing to do the Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT). After that, we propose a new form of synchrosqueezing transform to concentrate the energy spread curves which can be established as a state translation model. Then in the second step, we use the RFS-based Bernoulli filter to estimate the parameters of the multi-component signal. In this step, the method avoids the disturbance of stray points and empty areas so that the m-D parameters can be estimated accurately. The experimental results prove the availability of the proposed method and the accuracy of the estimation of m-D parameters.