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Herein, we put forward a new framework combining parallel DOA estimators with Toeplitz matrix reconstruction to address the problem. Each estimator is constructed by connecting a multi-label classifier to a spatial filter, which is based on convolutional-recurrent neural networks. Spatial filters divide the angle domain into several sectors, so that the following classifiers can extract the arrival directions. Assisted with Toeplitz-based method for source-number determination, pseudo or missed angles classified by the estimators will be reduced. Then, the spatial spectrum can be more accurately recovered. In addition, the proposed method is data-driven, so it is naturally immune to signal coherence. Simulation results demonstrate the predominance of the proposed method and show that the trained model is robust to imperfect circumstances such as limited snapshots, colored Gaussian noise, and array imperfections.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20082296","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,21]],"date-time":"2020-04-21T04:49:38Z","timestamp":1587444578000},"page":"2296","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["A-CRNN-Based Method for Coherent DOA Estimation with Unknown Source Number"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7182-8433","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuanyuan","family":"Yao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hong","family":"Lei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wenjing","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"67","DOI":"10.1109\/79.526899","article-title":"Two decades of array signal processing research: The parametric approach","volume":"13","author":"Krim","year":"1996","journal-title":"IEEE Signal Process. 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