Open Set HRRP Recognition Using Adaptive Learning with Enclosed Decision Boundaries

High resolution range profiles (HRRP), which contain fine geometric structure information of targets, plays animportant role in the field of Radar automatic target recognition (RATR). In the actual application of RATR, radar may often capture targets that are non-cooperative, making it difficult to establish a comprehensive database, and traditional recognition algorithms are prone to misjudgment when facing unknown targets. Therefore, Open set recognition (OSR) is proposed to simultaneously recognize in-database and out-of-database targets. Considering the pose sensitivity of HRRP, minor changes in the target’s pose can cause significant changes in the HRRP images, leading to a potentially dispersed distribution of samples from the same category in the feature space, which makes it difficult for traditional fixed decision boundaries in OSR to adapt. To address this, this paper proposes an HRRP open set recognition method capable of adaptively learning closed decision boundaries. Based on Hierarchical dirichlet processes (HDP), the method achieves adaptive clustering of subclasses under different categories according to the data distribution characteristics of each category, determining multiple small decision boundaries within each category, and allowing the decision boundaries to dynamically adjust according to the sample features. Finally, experiments with real HRRP data have verified the effectiveness of the proposed method.