• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.1550-1558
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• 1997

In this paper, we first propose a modified OS CFAR detector called the order statistics cell averaging(OSCA) CFAR detector and anlyze its performance for a Rayleigh target in homogeneous backgrounds, clutter edges, and satistics smallest of(OSSO) CFAR detectors for a Rayleigh target to nonhomogeneous environments. Computer simulation results show that the OSCA CFAR detector has superior performance to OS, OSGO, and OSSO CFAR detectors in homogeneous and multiple target environments. And the proposed detector shows its robustness for fast detection because it requires falf the processing time of the OS CFAR detector.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.17-34
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• 1994

In this paper, we present an architecture of the constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector called the generalized order statistics (GOS) CFAR detector, which covers various order statistics (OS) and cell-averaging (CA) CFAR detectors as special cases. For the proposed GOS CFAR detector, we obtain unified formulas for the false alarm and detection probabilities. By properly choosing coefficients of the GOS CFAR detector, one can utilize any combination of ordered samples to estimate the background noise level. Thus, if we use a reference window of size N, we can realize $(2^N-1)$ kinds of CFAR processors and obtain their performances from the unified formulas. Some examples are the CA, the OS, the censored mean level, and the trimmed mean CFAR detectors. As an application of the GOS CFAR detector to multiple target detection, we propose an algorithm called the adaptive mean level detector, which censors adaptively the interfering target returns in a reference window.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.15-25
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• 1994

In this paper we present a new formula which can predict the exact detection probability of a generalized order statistics (GOS) constant false alarm rate (DFAR) detector for a partially correlated Rayleigh target model (0 < $ \rho$< 1) in a closed form, where $\rho$ is the correlation coefficient between returned pulses. By simply substituting a set of specific coefficient into the derived formula, one can obtain the detection probability of any kind of CFAR detector. Detectors may include the order statistics CFAR detector, the censored mean level detector, and the trimmed mean CFAR detector, but are not necessarily restricted to them. The numerical result for the first order Markov correlation model as applied to some of the detectors shows that as $\rho$ increases from zero to one, higher signal-to-noise ratio is required to achieve the same detection probability.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.146-148
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• 1995

A CFAR algorithm for weibull clutter is discussed. The Maximum a posteriori(MAP) estimator for two parameters(skewness and scale) of the weibull clutter is proposed, assuming the probability density function of skewness parameter is known. And proposed MAP estimator is compared with the Maximum likelihood(ML) estimator. Using this MAP estimator, we can design CFAR detector which is shown to have smaller CFAR loss than ML CFAR detector by the statistical simulation method.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 1993

Nitzberg has analyzed the detection performance of the clutter map constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector using single pulse. In this paper, we extend the detection analysis to the clutter map CFAR detector that employs M-pulse noncoherent integration. Detection and false alarm probabilities for Swerling target models are derived. The analytical results show that the larger the number of integrated pulses M, the higher the detection probability. On the other hand, the analytical results for Swerling target models show that the detection performance of the completely decorrelated target signal is better than that of the completely correlated target.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.164-169
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• 2010

최근 SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) 영상의 거리 및 도플러 해상도가 높아짐에 따라 표적의 탐지 정확도는 향상되고 있지만 처리할 데이터 용량이 급증하고 있다. 기존의 단일 셀 기반 CFAR 검출기는 전체 영상 내에서 모든 거리 셀 데이터를 검사하여야 하므로 CFAR 검출기의 속도 성능 저하를 가져온다. 본 논문에서는 다중셀 기반 CFAR 처리 방법을 2단으로 개선하여 1단계에서는 다중 셀 평균 기반 CFAR 검출을 이용하여 예상 표적 지역을 검출하고, 2단계에서는 예상 표적 지역에 대해서만 단일 셀 기반 CFAR 검출을 수행함으로써 처리 시간을 줄이고 표적의 탐지 성능을 획기적으로 향상시켰다. 제안된 기법에 대한 성능은 실제 SAR 영상을 통하여 기존의 단일 셀 기반 방식과 다중 셀 평균 기반 검출 방식을 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1839-1845
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• 2016

Detecting remote targets is important to active protection system (APS) or infrared search and track (IRST) applications. In normal situation, the well-known constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector works properly. However, decoys in APS or closely spaced targets in IRST degrade the detection capability by increasing background noise level in the CFAR detector. This paper presents a context aware CFAR detector by the intensity sorting and selection of background region to reduce the effect of neighboring targets that lead to incorrect estimation of background statistics. The existence of neighboring targets can be recognized by intensity sorting where neighboring targets usually show highest ranks. The proposed background statistics (mean, standard deviation) estimation method from median local pixels can be aware of the background context and reduce the effects of the neighboring targets, which increase the signal-to-clutter ratio. The experimental results on the synthetic APS sequence, real adjacent target sequence, and remote pedestrian sequence validated that the proposed method produced an enhanced detection rate with the same false alarm rate compared with the hysteresis-CFAR (H-CFAR) detection.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제29B권1호
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• pp.50-57
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• 1992

This paper proposes and analyzes a new CFAR(Constant False Alarm Rate) detector called the EXGO(Excision Greatest Of)-CFAR. This is the combination of the EXCA(Excision Cell Averaging)-CFAR that shows a good performance under the influence of interferences and the GO(Greatest Of)-CFAR that fights well with clutter edges. For the performance analysis, the formulas for the detection probability and the false alarm probability are derived and computed, and the results are compared with other existing CFAR detectors. Our analysis shows that the proposed EXGO-CFAR considerably improves the false-alarm-rate performance of the EXCA-CFAR at clutter edges while maintaining the high detection probability performance of the EXCA-CFAR in the homogeneous and/or interference noise environment.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2012

레이더 및 소나와 같은 탐지 시스템에서 잡음 환경은 균질 (homogeneous) 환경과 비균질 (heterogeneous) 환경으로 구분되며 비균질 환경은 간섭 신호 환경 (target masking)과 클러터 경계 환경 (clutter edge)으로 모델링 할 수 있다. VI (variability index) CFAR (constant false alarm rate)는 이러한 다양한 잡음 환경에 강건한 표적신호 탐지 성능의 확보를 위한 방법으로서, mean-level CFAR 알고리즘들 중에서 주어진 잡음 환경에 최적화된 기법을 선택하는 방법이다. 하지만, VI CFAR의 경우 클러터 잡음 경계 환경과 간섭 신호 환경에서 검출 확률이 저하되는 단점을 보인다. 이를 극복하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 TM (trimmed mean) CFAR와 sub-window를 이용하여 비균질 환경에 의한 검출 확률의 저하를 최소화시키는 방법을 제안한다. 모의 전산 실험 결과에 따르면, 제안된 알고리즘은 기존의 VI CFAR 및 단일 CFAR 알고리즘에 비해 간섭 신호 환경과 클러터 경계 환경에서 검출 확률 및 오경보 확률 측면에서 우수한 성능을 보인다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.45-48
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• 1984

A serious degradation of blocking of the detection performance in a cell aeraging-logarithmic detector/constant false alarm rate(CA-LOG/CFAR) is known to be caused by the presence of a large interfering noise in the set of sample mean. A technique consisting of the logarithmic circuit and inverter has been proposed to alleviate this problem, by modifying the conventional CA-LOG/CFAR receiver. The detection performance of the proposed technique is linearly improbed over the normal output level and the blocking characteristics of the CA-LOG/CFAR can be changed to finite output level.