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The recognition of multi-components signals based on semantic segmentation

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The separation and recognition of radar signals are crucial in a complex electromagnetic environment, especially multi-component radar signals. However, most existing algorithms can only recognize dual-component signals. An algorithm based on semantic segmentation is proposed to separate the signal in the time-frequency domain and classify multi-component radar signals. An improved Cohen class time-frequency distribution (CTFD) is used to represent the one-dimensional signals as time-frequency images (TFIs). A convolutional denoising autoencoder (CDAE) is established to filter the TFIs. Three semantic segmentation networks are used, a fully convolutional neural network (FCN-8s), U-Net, and DeepLab V3+. The method can separate and recognize signals simultaneously and is applied to aliased signals composed of 1-4 components. The simulation results show that the proposed method provides excellent performance for separating and recognizing multi-component signals. At a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 0 dB, the accuracies of the aliased radar signals with 1-4 components are 100%, 100%, 96.67%, and 93.75%, respectively. The separation and recognition algorithm can be adapted to other signal modulation types.

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    Changbo Hou, Dingyi Fu, Yun Lin, Guowei Liu & Zhichao Zhou

  2. Key Laboratory of Advanced Marine Communication and Information Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China

    Changbo Hou

  3. Beijing Institute of Electronic System Engineering, 100854, Beijing, China

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Hou, C., Fu, D., Hua, L. et al. The recognition of multi-components signals based on semantic segmentation. Wireless Netw 29, 147–160 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-022-03086-7

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