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Automatic Data-Driven Frequency-Warped Cepstral Feature Design for Micro-Doppler Classification


Abstract:

Micro-Doppler signature analysis and speech processing share a common approach as both rely on the extraction of features from the signal's time-frequency distribution fo...Show More

Abstract:

Micro-Doppler signature analysis and speech processing share a common approach as both rely on the extraction of features from the signal's time-frequency distribution for classification. As a result, features, such as the mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCCs), which have shown success in speech processing, have been proposed for use in micro-Doppler classification. MFCCs were originally designed to take into account the auditory properties of the human ear by filtering the signal using a filter bank spaced according to the mel-frequency scale. However, the physics underlying radar micro-Doppler is unrelated to that of human hearing or speech. This work shows that the mel-scale filter bank results in the loss of frequency components significant to the classification of radar micro-Doppler. A novel method for frequency-warped cepstral feature design is proposed as a means for optimizing the efficacy of features in a data-driven fashion specifically for micro-Doppler analysis. It is shown that the performance of the proposed frequency warped cepstral coefficients outperforms MFCC based on both simulated and measured data sets for four-class and eight-class human activity classification problems.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ( Volume: 54, Issue: 4, August 2018)
Page(s): 1724 - 1738
Date of Publication: 02 February 2018

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