As one of the crucial sensors for environment sensing, frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radars are widely used in modern vehicles for driving assistance/autonomous driving. However, the limited frequency bandwidth and the increasing number of equipped radar sensors would inevitably cause mutual interference, degrading target detection and producing safety hazards. In this paper, a deep learning-based interference mitigation (IM) approach is proposed for FMCW radars by using the dilated convolution for network construction and a designated contrast learning strategy for training. The dilated convolution enlarges the receptive field of the neural network, and the designated contrastive learning strategy enforces to distinguish better between interferences and desired signals. The results of numerical simulation and experimental data processing show that the dilated convolution-based IM network, compared to the traditional convolution-based ones, can achieve a higher Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise-Ratio (SINR) and target detection rate. Moreover, the designated contrastive learning strategy enables a better and more stable IM performance without increasing the complexity of the network, which can facilitate faster signal processing.

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Due to the extensive usage of automotive radars on vehicles, mutual interference among radars on the road is becoming considerable. To address this, we propose a time domain strategy based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL). This approach helps avoid mutual interference for automotive radars in the time domain without extra communications. The numerical simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach can avoid interference as effectively as frequency hopping. Moreover, the time domain strategy has more advantages than frequency hopping when encountering dynamic interference.

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In this article, the interference mitigation (IM) problem is tackled as a regression problem. A prior-guided deep learning (DL)-based IM approach is proposed for frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars. Considering the complex-valued nature of radar signals, a complex-valued convolutional neural network, which is different from the conventional real-valued counterparts, is utilized as an architecture for implementation. Meanwhile, as the desired beat signals of FMCW radars and interferences exhibit different distributions in the time–frequency domain, this prior feature is exploited as a regularization term to avoid overfitting of the learned representation. The effectiveness and accuracy of our proposed complex-valued fully convolutional network (CV-FCN)-based IM approach are verified and analyzed through both simulated and measured radar signals. Compared with the real-valued counterparts, the CV-FCN shows a better IM performance with a potential of half memory reduction in low signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) scenarios. The average SINR of interfered signals has been improved from −9.13 to 10.46 dB. Moreover, the CV-FCN trained using only simulated data can be directly utilized for IM in various measured radar signals and shows a superior generalization capability. Furthermore, by incorporating the prior feature, the CV-FCN trained on only 1/8 of the full data achieves comparable performance as that on the full dataset in low SINR scenarios, and the training procedure converges faster.@en

With the substantial increase of the FMCW radars used for autonomous driving and other applications in the area of surveillance, mutual interference has become a major concern. Recently, Deep Learning (DL) models have been used in FMCW radar interference mitigation with great success, but no research has been conducted in processing the time-frequency (t-f) maps of acquired beat signals. Considering the different distributions of useful beat signals and interferences in the t-f domain, a fully convolutional network (FCN) is proposed to suppress the interference and noise in the t-f spectrum obtained by the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) algorithm. The experimental results on the simulated radar signals show that the proposed FCN provides superior interference suppression with few parameters. Moreover, the qualitative results on the measured radar signals collected in real-world scenarios emphasize the excellent generalization capacity of the model. Finally, we show that our proposed approach achieves the best performance compared to state-of-the-art techniques.

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Radio frequency interference, which makes it difficult to produce high-quality radar spectrograms, is a major issue for micro-Doppler-based human activity recognition (HAR). In this paper, we propose a deep-learning-based method to detect and cut out the interference in spectrograms. Then, we restore the spectrograms in the cut-out region. First, a fully convolutional neural network (FCN) is employed to detect and remove the interference. Then, a coarse-to-fine generative adversarial network (GAN) is proposed to restore the part of the spectrogram that is affected by the interferences. The simulated motion capture (MOCAP) spectrograms and the measured radar spectrograms with interference are used to verify the proposed method. Experimental results from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives show that the proposed method can mitigate the interference and restore high-quality radar spectrograms. Furthermore, the comparison experiments also demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.

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