A Hermitian Positive Definite neural network for micro-Doppler complex covariance processing

Overview & Synopsis

In its raw form, micro-Doppler radar data takes the form of a complex time-series, which can be seen as multiple realizations of a Gaussian process. As such, a complex covariance matrix constitutes a viable and synthetic representation of such data. In this paper, we introduce a neural network on Hermitian Positive Definite (HPD) matrices, that is complex-valued Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices, or complex covariance matrices. We validate this new architecture on synthetic data, comparing against previous similar methods.