Dual-Scale Doppler Attention for Human Identification

Abstract

This paper considers a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) with an attention mechanism referred to as Dual-Scale Doppler Attention (DSDA) for human identification given a micro-Doppler (MD) signature induced as input. The MD signature includes unique gait characteristics by different sized body parts moving, as arms and legs move rapidly, while the torso moves slowly. Each person is identified based on his/her unique gait characteristic in the MD signature. DSDA provides attention at different time-frequency resolutions to cater to different MD components composed of both fast-varying and steady. Through this, DSDA can capture the unique gait characteristic of each person used for human identification. We demonstrate the validity of DSDA on a recently published benchmark dataset, IDRad. The empirical results show that the proposed DSDA outperforms previous methods, using a qualitative analysis interpretability on MD signatures.