Adaptive Line Enhancer Based on Maximum Correntropy Criterion and Frequency Domain Sparsity for Passive Sonars

The low-frequency narrowband components (known as lines) in the radiated noise of underwater acoustic targets are an important feature of passive sonar detection. Conventional adaptive line enhancer (ALE) based on the least mean square algorithm has limited performance under colored background noise...

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Main Authors: Nan Zhang, Liang An, Yun Yu, Xiaoyan Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-09-01
Series:Electronics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/19/4109
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Summary:The low-frequency narrowband components (known as lines) in the radiated noise of underwater acoustic targets are an important feature of passive sonar detection. Conventional adaptive line enhancer (ALE) based on the least mean square algorithm has limited performance under colored background noise and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this paper, by combining the frequency domain sparse model of lines and maximum correntropy criterion (MCC), a <i>β</i>-adaptive <i>l</i><sub>0</sub>-MCC-ALE is proposed to solve the above-mentioned problem. The proposed ALE uses a sparse-driven MCC algorithm to update the weight vector in the frequency domain to further suppress the colored background noise. For the problem that the value of parameter β is sensitive to the performance, <i>β</i> is updated adaptively according to the frequency response of ALE in each iteration. Simulation and real data processing results show that the proposed ALE is insensitive to the given parameter <i>β</i> and has excellent performance for line enhancement. Compared with conventional ALE, the SNR of lines can be improved by 7~8 dB.
ISSN:2079-9292