A PARAFAC-based technique for detection and localization of multiple targets in a MIMO radar system

Author

Nion, Dimitri ; Sidiropoulos, Nicholas D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Tech. Univ. of Crete, Chania

fYear

2009

fDate

19-24 April 2009

Firstpage

2077

Lastpage

2080

Abstract

In this paper, we show that the problem of detection and localization of multiple targets in a bistatic MIMO radar system can be solved by parallel factor (PARAFAC) analysis. Our method is deterministic and fully capitalizes on the strong algebraic structure of the received data, where the radar cross section (RCS) fluctuation is not regarded as a nuisance parameter but rather as a source of time diversity. Simulation results show that our technique outperforms existing beamforming-based radar imaging methods at a lower complexity.

Keywords

MIMO communication; algebra; object detection; radar cross-sections; radar detection; PARAFAC-based technique; RCS; algebraic structure; bistatic MIMO radar system; multiple target detection; multiple target localization; parallel factor analysis; radar cross section; Antenna arrays; Direction of arrival estimation; Fluctuations; MIMO; Radar antennas; Radar cross section; Radar detection; Radar imaging; Receiving antennas; US Department of Defense; DOA-DOD estimation; MIMO radars; PARAFAC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009. ICASSP 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2353-8

Electronic_ISBN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960024

Filename

4960024