Networked ISAC Enabled Target Recognition Towards Low-Altitude Economy

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a low-altitude target (LAT) recognition scheme based on multi-base station (BS) collaboration and multi-scale feature fusion for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) network. Firstly, we formulate the motion equations, echo channels, and echo signals for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), bird, vehicle, and pedestrian under multi-BS collaborative monitoring scenario. Then we extract the velocityresolution-preferred time-frequency spectrum, time-resolutionpreferred time-frequency spectrum, and the velocity-transfer time-frequency spectrum observed by each BS from echo signals. We collectively refer to these three types of time-frequency spectrum as the multi-scale feature of the LAT. Next, we design a multi-BS and multi-scale feature fusion enabled LAT recognition network with Swin Transformer, which employs the visualized images of multi-scale feature to jointly recognize the target through deep feature extraction, intra-BS feature interaction, inter-BS feature interaction, and target recognition output. We generate a massive echo signal dataset comprising 1,440,000 samples for LAT recognition within ISAC network. This dataset can serve as a public benchmark to evaluate our proposed scheme and facilitate future research. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme realizes high recognition accuracy and robust unseen-subtype generalization, confirming the effectiveness of multi-scale feature fusion and the additional gains brought by multi-BS collaboration. The project page is available at: https://alivn999.github.io/COSMOS-Networked-ISAC-Enabl ed-Target-Recognition-Towards-Low-Altitude-Economy/.