Time-Frequency Aliased Signal Identification Based on Multimodal Feature Fusion

Sensors (Basel). 2024 Apr 16;24(8):2558. doi: 10.3390/s24082558.

Abstract

The identification of multi-source signals with time-frequency aliasing is a complex problem in wideband signal reception. The traditional method of first separation and identification especially fails due to the significant separation error under underdetermined conditions when the degree of time-frequency aliasing is high. The single-mode recognition method does not need to be separated first. However, the single-mode features contain less signal information, making it challenging to identify time-frequency aliasing signals accurately. To solve the above problems, this article proposes a time-frequency aliasing signal recognition method based on multi-mode fusion (TRMM). This method uses the U-Net network to extract pixel-by-pixel features of the time-frequency and wave-frequency images and then performs weighted fusion. The multimodal feature scores are used as the classification basis to realize the recognition of the time-frequency aliasing signals. When the SNR is 0 dB, the recognition rate of the four-signal aliasing model can reach more than 97.3%.

Keywords: deep learning; multimodal feature fusion; signal recognition; time-frequency diagram; wave-frequency diagram.

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.