The high-resolution range profile (HRRP) presents significant potential for few-shot aerial target recognition due to its low complexity and rich structural information compared to conventional techniques. Nevertheless, few-shot HRRP recognition encounters two primary challenges: intraclass variations resulting from HRRP's sensitivity to prior information (such as azimuth, elevation, and distance) and overfitting in few-shot scenarios. This article proposes a prior information-assisted few-shot HRRP classifier (PFHC) to address these challenges. The PFHC integrates a prior information-assisted gated recurrent unit (PA-GRU) and task-wise shrinkage quadratic discriminant analysis (TS-QDA). The PA-GRU is the feature extractor, designed to learn the latent relationships between prior information and intraclass variations. Following feature extraction, TS-QDA serves as the few-shot classifier, leveraging feature covariance to mitigate overfitting while maintaining stability through task-wise shrinkage. Experimental results indicate that the PFHC effectively captures discriminative features for the HRRP recognition using only 10% of the parameters required by the conventional feature extractors. Moreover, the PFHC demonstrates superior recognition accuracy across most few-shot task settings and scenarios compared to several state-of-the-art inductive few-shot classifiers. For instance, the PFHC achieves an accuracy improvement of at least 4.24% and 8.05% in the “5-way 20-shot” scenario and generalized scenario with 3-way training and 20-shot, respectively.


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    Title :

    Prior Information-Assisted Few-Shot HRRP Recognition Based on Task-Wise Shrinkage Quadratic Discriminant Analysis


    Contributors:
    Li, Jixi (author) / Guo, Weiwei (author) / Wei, Feiming (author) / Zhang, Tao (author) / Yu, Wenxian (author)


    Publication date :

    2024-12-01


    Size :

    4915057 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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