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The CVMD is extended from variational mode decomposition (VMD), which is a recently introduced technique for adaptive signal decomposition, limited to only dealing with the real signal. Thus, the VMD is extended from the real domain to the complex domain firstly. Then, the optimal effective order of singular value is obtained by singular value decomposition (SVD) to solve the problem of under-decomposition or over-decomposition caused by unreasonable choice of decomposition layer, it is more accurate than detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) and empirical mode decomposition (EMD). Finally, the strongly correlated modes and weakly correlated modes are judged by calculating the Mahalanobis distance between the band-limited intrinsic mode functions (BLIMFs) and the original signal, which is more robust than the correlation judgment methods such as computing cross-correlation, Euclidean distance, Bhattachryya distance and Hausdorff distance. After the weak correlation modes are eliminated, the signal is reconstructed locally, and the separation of the micro-motion signal is realized. The experimental results show that the proposed method can filter out the strong clutter component and the fuselage component from radar echo more effectively than the local mean decomposition (LMD), empirical mode decomposition and moving target indicator (MTI) filter.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21051637","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,26]],"date-time":"2021-02-26T06:47:20Z","timestamp":1614322040000},"page":"1637","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Adaptive Complex Variational Mode Decomposition for Micro-Motion Signal Processing Applications"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3416-8197","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Saiqiang","family":"Xia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Air Force Early Warning Academy, Wuhan 430019, China"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Air Force Early Warning Academy, Wuhan 430019, China"}]},{"given":"Wanyong","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Air Force Early Warning Academy, Wuhan 430019, China"}]},{"given":"Chaowei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Air Force Early Warning Academy, Wuhan 430019, China"}]},{"given":"Liangfa","family":"Hua","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Air Force Early Warning Academy, Wuhan 430019, China"}]},{"given":"Zibo","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Air Force Early Warning Academy, Wuhan 430019, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"271","DOI":"10.1049\/ip-rsn:20030743","article-title":"Analysis of micro-Doppler signatures","volume":"150","author":"Chen","year":"2003","journal-title":"IEE Proc. 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