Target Tracking in Blind Range of Radars With Deep Learning

Chandrakanth, V and Murthy, A.V.S.N. and Channappayya, Sumohana S. (2020) Target Tracking in Blind Range of Radars With Deep Learning. In: 21st International Radar Symposium, IRS 2020, 5-7 October 2020, Warsaw.

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Abstract

Surveillance radars form the first line of defense in border areas. But due to highly uneven terrains, there are pockets of vulnerability for the enemy to move undetected till they are in the blind range of the radar. This class of targets are termed the 'pop up' targets. They pose a serious threat as they can inflict severe damage to life and property. Blind ranges occur by way of design in pulsed radars. To minimize the blind range problem, multistatic radar configuration or dual pulse transmission methods were proposed. Multistatic radar configuration is highly hardware intensive and dual pulse transmission could only reduce the blind range, not eliminate it. In this work we propose, elimination of blind range using deep learning based video tracking for mono static surveillance radars. Since radars operate in deploy and forget mode, visual system must also operate in a similar way for added advantage. Deep Learning paved way for automatic target detection and classification. However, a deep learning architecture is inherently not capable of tracking because of frame to frame independence in processing. To overcome this limitation, we use prior information from past detections to establish frame to frame correlation and predict future positions of target using a method inspired from CFAR in a parallel channel for target tracking. © 2020 Warsaw University of Technology.

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IITH Creators:

IITH Creators	ORCiD
Channappayya, Sumohana	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5687-0887

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Blind Range; CFAR; Deep Learning; Radar; Video Tracking Automatic target detection; Frame correlations; Future position; Learning architectures; Parallel channel; Prior information; Video tracking; Visual systems

Subjects:

Electrical Engineering

Divisions:

Department of Electrical Engineering

Depositing User:

. LibTrainee 2021

Date Deposited:

23 Nov 2022 11:02

Last Modified:

23 Nov 2022 11:02

URI:

http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/11377