GCPS: A CNN Performance Evaluation Criterion for Radar Signal Intrapulse Modulation Recognition

In radar intrapulse modulation recognition through convolutional neural networks (CNN), the recognition rate vis-a-vis varying signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) is utilized to analyze the performance of networks. However, three shortcomings exist in this realm, (1) Proportional increase in recognition rate up to 100%, due to SNR increase, leading to saturation. (2) The dependency of recognition rate on the test set. (3) Recognition rate failing to substantiate the increase in SNR and its manifestation in CNN performance enhancement. Foregone in view, this letter proposes an evaluation criterion to evaluate CNN performance to address the shortcomings above. We propose Grad-CAM position score-Internal Benchmark (GCPS-IB) to address (1), (2), and Grad-CAM position score-External Benchmark (GCPS-EB) to address (3). Finally, we utilize GCPS to evaluate and compare the performance of existing GoogLeNet and ResNet-18 to verify the efficacy. The proposed criterion establishes its efficacy by addressing the shortcomings mentioned above, hence augmenting the recognition rate.