SubspaceNet: Deep Learning-Aided Subspace Methods for DoA Estimation

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Main Authors: Shmuel, Dor H., Merkofer, Julian P., Revach, Guy, van Sloun, Ruud J. G., Shlezinger, Nir
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author Shmuel, Dor H.
Merkofer, Julian P.
Revach, Guy
van Sloun, Ruud J. G.
Shlezinger, Nir
author_facet Shmuel, Dor H.
Merkofer, Julian P.
Revach, Guy
van Sloun, Ruud J. G.
Shlezinger, Nir
contents Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a fundamental task in array processing. A popular family of DoA estimation algorithms are subspace methods, which operate by dividing the measurements into distinct signal and noise subspaces. Subspace methods, such as Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) and Root-MUSIC, rely on several restrictive assumptions, including narrowband non-coherent sources and fully calibrated arrays, and their performance is considerably degraded when these do not hold. In this work we propose SubspaceNet; a data-driven DoA estimator which learns how to divide the observations into distinguishable subspaces. This is achieved by utilizing a dedicated deep neural network to learn the empirical autocorrelation of the input, by training it as part of the Root-MUSIC method, leveraging the inherent differentiability of this specific DoA estimator, while removing the need to provide a ground-truth decomposable autocorrelation matrix. Once trained, the resulting SubspaceNet serves as a universal surrogate covariance estimator that can be applied in combination with any subspace-based DoA estimation method, allowing its successful application in challenging setups. SubspaceNet is shown to enable various DoA estimation algorithms to cope with coherent sources, wideband signals, low SNR, array mismatches, and limited snapshots, while preserving the interpretability and the suitability of classic subspace methods.
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spellingShingle SubspaceNet: Deep Learning-Aided Subspace Methods for DoA Estimation
Shmuel, Dor H.
Merkofer, Julian P.
Revach, Guy
van Sloun, Ruud J. G.
Shlezinger, Nir
Signal Processing
Machine Learning
Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a fundamental task in array processing. A popular family of DoA estimation algorithms are subspace methods, which operate by dividing the measurements into distinct signal and noise subspaces. Subspace methods, such as Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) and Root-MUSIC, rely on several restrictive assumptions, including narrowband non-coherent sources and fully calibrated arrays, and their performance is considerably degraded when these do not hold. In this work we propose SubspaceNet; a data-driven DoA estimator which learns how to divide the observations into distinguishable subspaces. This is achieved by utilizing a dedicated deep neural network to learn the empirical autocorrelation of the input, by training it as part of the Root-MUSIC method, leveraging the inherent differentiability of this specific DoA estimator, while removing the need to provide a ground-truth decomposable autocorrelation matrix. Once trained, the resulting SubspaceNet serves as a universal surrogate covariance estimator that can be applied in combination with any subspace-based DoA estimation method, allowing its successful application in challenging setups. SubspaceNet is shown to enable various DoA estimation algorithms to cope with coherent sources, wideband signals, low SNR, array mismatches, and limited snapshots, while preserving the interpretability and the suitability of classic subspace methods.
title SubspaceNet: Deep Learning-Aided Subspace Methods for DoA Estimation
topic Signal Processing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02271