Few-Shot Radar Signal Recognition through Self-Supervised Learning and Radio Frequency Domain Adaptation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03461v3
• Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:08:06 GMT
• Title: Few-Shot Radar Signal Recognition through Self-Supervised Learning and Radio Frequency Domain Adaptation
• Authors: Zi Huang, Simon Denman, Akila Pemasiri, Clinton Fookes, Terrence Martin,
• Abstract summary: Radar signal recognition plays a pivotal role in electronic warfare (EW)<n>Recent advances in deep learning have shown significant potential in improving radar signal recognition.<n>These methods fall short in EW scenarios where annotated radio frequency (RF) data are scarce or impractical to obtain.
• Score: 48.265859815346985
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Radar signal recognition (RSR) plays a pivotal role in electronic warfare (EW), as accurately classifying radar signals is critical for informing decision-making. Recent advances in deep learning have shown significant potential in improving RSR in domains with ample annotated data. However, these methods fall short in EW scenarios where annotated radio frequency (RF) data are scarce or impractical to obtain. To address these challenges, we introduce a self-supervised learning (SSL) method which utilises masked signal modelling and RF domain adaption to perform few-shot RSR and enhance performance in environments with limited RF samples and annotations. We propose a two-step approach, first pre-training masked autoencoders (MAE) on baseband in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) signals from diverse RF domains, and then transferring the learned representations to the radar domain, where annotated data are scarce. Empirical results show that our lightweight self-supervised ResNet1D model with domain adaptation achieves up to a 17.5% improvement in 1-shot classification accuracy when pre-trained on in-domain signals (i.e., radar signals) and up to a 16.31% improvement when pre-trained on out-of-domain signals (i.e., comm signals), compared to its baseline without using SSL. We also present reference results for several MAE designs and pre-training strategies, establishing a new benchmark for few-shot radar signal classification.

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