Lightweight CNN for HRRP Recognition Based on Attention Mechanism Structured Pruning

Yanhua Wang, Zhilong Zhang, Mingchen Yuan, Jiandong Liao, Liang Zhang*

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Abstract

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely investigated for radar target high resolution range profile (HRRP) recognition. However, the deep structures of CNN require high storage and computational capabilities, thus restricting its applications with limited resources. In this paper, we design a lightweight CNN model with structure pruning based on the channel-wise attention mechanism. Specifically, the attention value is used to represent the importance of the filters in CNN. Furthermore, Greedy strategy and fine-tuning are adopted in the pruning process to minimize the loss of model performance. The results of public dataset show that the recognition accuracy of the proposed method decreases by less than 0.13% when the pruning ratio is 80%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 IEEE International Radar Conference, RADAR 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665482783
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event2023 IEEE International Radar Conference, RADAR 2023 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 6 Nov 202310 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference
ISSN (Print)1097-5764
ISSN (Electronic)2375-5318

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE International Radar Conference, RADAR 2023
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period6/11/2310/11/23

Keywords

  • CNN
  • HRRP recognition
  • attention mechanism
  • model fine-tuning
  • structured pruning

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