Automatic modulation classification(AMC)aims at identifying the modulation of the received signals,which is a significant approach to identifying the target in military and civil applications.In this paper,a novel dat...Automatic modulation classification(AMC)aims at identifying the modulation of the received signals,which is a significant approach to identifying the target in military and civil applications.In this paper,a novel data-driven framework named convolutional and transformer-based deep neural network(CTDNN)is proposed to improve the classification performance.CTDNN can be divided into four modules,i.e.,convolutional neural network(CNN)backbone,transition module,transformer module,and final classifier.In the CNN backbone,a wide and deep convolution structure is designed,which consists of 1×15 convolution kernels and intensive cross-layer connections instead of traditional 1×3 kernels and sequential connections.In the transition module,a 1×1 convolution layer is utilized to compress the channels of the previous multi-scale CNN features.In the transformer module,three self-attention layers are designed for extracting global features and generating the classification vector.In the classifier,the final decision is made based on the maximum a posterior probability.Extensive simulations are conducted,and the result shows that our proposed CTDNN can achieve superior classification performance than traditional deep models.展开更多
The utilization of millimeter-wave frequencies and cognitive radio(CR)are promising ways to increase the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems.However,conventional CR spectrum sensing techniques entail...The utilization of millimeter-wave frequencies and cognitive radio(CR)are promising ways to increase the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems.However,conventional CR spectrum sensing techniques entail sampling the received signal at a Nyquist rate,and they are not viable for wideband signals due to their high cost.This paper expounds on how sub-Nyquist sampling in conjunction with deep learning can be leveraged to remove this limitation.To this end,we propose a multi-task learning(MTL)framework using convolutional neural networks for the joint inference of the underlying narrowband signal number,their modulation scheme,and their location in a wideband spectrum.We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework for real-world millimeter-wave wideband signals collected by physical devices,exhibiting a 91.7% accuracy in the joint inference task when considering up to two narrowband signals over a wideband spectrum.Ultimately,the proposed data-driven approach enables on-the-fly wideband spectrum sensing,combining accuracy,and computational efficiency,which are indispensable for CR and opportunistic networking.展开更多
Vehicle re-identification involves matching images of vehicles across varying camera views.The diversity of camera locations along different roadways leads to significant intra-class variation and only minimal inter-c...Vehicle re-identification involves matching images of vehicles across varying camera views.The diversity of camera locations along different roadways leads to significant intra-class variation and only minimal inter-class similarity in the collected vehicle images,which increases the complexity of re-identification tasks.To tackle these challenges,this study proposes AG-GCN(Attention-Guided Graph Convolutional Network),a novel framework integrating several pivotal components.Initially,AG-GCN embeds a lightweight attention module within the ResNet-50 structure to learn feature weights automatically,thereby improving the representation of vehicle features globally by highlighting salient features and suppressing extraneous ones.Moreover,AG-GCN adopts a graph-based structure to encapsulate deep local features.A graph convolutional network then amalgamates these features to understand the relationships among vehicle-related characteristics.Subsequently,we amalgamate feature maps from both the attention and graph-based branches for a more comprehensive representation of vehicle features.The framework then gauges feature similarities and ranks them,thus enhancing the accuracy of vehicle re-identification.Comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analyses on two publicly available datasets verify the efficacy of AG-GCN in addressing intra-class and inter-class variability issues.展开更多
Neural network-based methods for intrapulse modulation recognition in radar signals have demonstrated significant improvements in classification accuracy.However,these approaches often rely on complex network structur...Neural network-based methods for intrapulse modulation recognition in radar signals have demonstrated significant improvements in classification accuracy.However,these approaches often rely on complex network structures,resulting in high computational resource requirements that limit their practical deployment in real-world settings.To address this issue,this paper proposes a bottleneck residual network with efficient soft-thresholding(BRN-EST)network,which integrates multiple lightweight design strategies and noise-reduction modules to maintain high recognition accuracy while significantly reducing computational complexity.Experimental results on the classical low-probability-of-intercept(LPI)radar signal dataset demonstrate that BRN-EST achieves comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art methods while reducing computational complexity by approximately 50%.展开更多
Aim: To diagnose COVID-19 more efficiently and more correctly, this study proposed a novel attention network forCOVID-19 (ANC). Methods: Two datasets were used in this study. An 18-way data augmentation was proposed t...Aim: To diagnose COVID-19 more efficiently and more correctly, this study proposed a novel attention network forCOVID-19 (ANC). Methods: Two datasets were used in this study. An 18-way data augmentation was proposed toavoid overfitting. Then, convolutional block attention module (CBAM) was integrated to our model, the structureof which is fine-tuned. Finally, Grad-CAM was used to provide an explainable diagnosis. Results: The accuracyof our ANC methods on two datasets are 96.32% ± 1.06%, and 96.00% ± 1.03%, respectively. Conclusions: Thisproposed ANC method is superior to 9 state-of-the-art approaches.展开更多
Radio modulation classification has always been an important technology in the field of communications.The difficulty of incremental learning in radio modulation classification is that learning new tasks will lead to ...Radio modulation classification has always been an important technology in the field of communications.The difficulty of incremental learning in radio modulation classification is that learning new tasks will lead to catastrophic forgetting of old tasks.In this paper,we propose a sample memory and recall framework for incremental learning of radio modulation classification.For data with different signal-to-noise ratios,we use a partial memory strategy by selecting appropriate samples for memorizing.We compare the performance of our proposed method with three baselines through a large number of simulation experiments.Results show that our method achieves far higher classification accuracy than finetuning method and feature extraction method.Furthermore,it performs closely to joint training method which uses all old data in terms of classification accuracy which validates the effectiveness of our method against catastrophic forgetting.展开更多
Deep learning technology is widely used in computer vision.Generally,a large amount of data is used to train the model weights in deep learning,so as to obtain a model with higher accuracy.However,massive data and com...Deep learning technology is widely used in computer vision.Generally,a large amount of data is used to train the model weights in deep learning,so as to obtain a model with higher accuracy.However,massive data and complex model structures require more calculating resources.Since people generally can only carry and use mobile and portable devices in application scenarios,neural networks have limitations in terms of calculating resources,size and power consumption.Therefore,the efficient lightweight model MobileNet is used as the basic network in this study for optimization.First,the accuracy of the MobileNet model is improved by adding methods such as the convolutional block attention module(CBAM)and expansion convolution.Then,the MobileNet model is compressed by using pruning and weight quantization algorithms based on weight size.Afterwards,methods such as Python crawlers and data augmentation are employed to create a garbage classification data set.Based on the above model optimization strategy,the garbage classification mobile terminal application is deployed on mobile phones and raspberry pies,realizing completing the garbage classification task more conveniently.展开更多
The infrastructure and construction of roads are crucial for the economic and social development of a region,but traffic-related challenges like accidents and congestion persist.Artificial Intelligence(AI)and Machine ...The infrastructure and construction of roads are crucial for the economic and social development of a region,but traffic-related challenges like accidents and congestion persist.Artificial Intelligence(AI)and Machine Learning(ML)have been used in road infrastructure and construction,particularly with the Internet of Things(IoT)devices.Object detection in Computer Vision also plays a key role in improving road infrastructure and addressing trafficrelated problems.This study aims to use You Only Look Once version 7(YOLOv7),Convolutional Block Attention Module(CBAM),the most optimized object-detection algorithm,to detect and identify traffic signs,and analyze effective combinations of adaptive optimizers like Adaptive Moment estimation(Adam),Root Mean Squared Propagation(RMSprop)and Stochastic Gradient Descent(SGD)with the YOLOv7.Using a portion of German traffic signs for training,the study investigates the feasibility of adopting smaller datasets while maintaining high accuracy.The model proposed in this study not only improves traffic safety by detecting traffic signs but also has the potential to contribute to the rapid development of autonomous vehicle systems.The study results showed an impressive accuracy of 99.7%when using a batch size of 8 and the Adam optimizer.This high level of accuracy demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed model for the image classification task of traffic sign recognition.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant(62171045,62201090)in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grants(2020YFB1807602,2019YFB1804404).
文摘Automatic modulation classification(AMC)aims at identifying the modulation of the received signals,which is a significant approach to identifying the target in military and civil applications.In this paper,a novel data-driven framework named convolutional and transformer-based deep neural network(CTDNN)is proposed to improve the classification performance.CTDNN can be divided into four modules,i.e.,convolutional neural network(CNN)backbone,transition module,transformer module,and final classifier.In the CNN backbone,a wide and deep convolution structure is designed,which consists of 1×15 convolution kernels and intensive cross-layer connections instead of traditional 1×3 kernels and sequential connections.In the transition module,a 1×1 convolution layer is utilized to compress the channels of the previous multi-scale CNN features.In the transformer module,three self-attention layers are designed for extracting global features and generating the classification vector.In the classifier,the final decision is made based on the maximum a posterior probability.Extensive simulations are conducted,and the result shows that our proposed CTDNN can achieve superior classification performance than traditional deep models.
文摘The utilization of millimeter-wave frequencies and cognitive radio(CR)are promising ways to increase the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems.However,conventional CR spectrum sensing techniques entail sampling the received signal at a Nyquist rate,and they are not viable for wideband signals due to their high cost.This paper expounds on how sub-Nyquist sampling in conjunction with deep learning can be leveraged to remove this limitation.To this end,we propose a multi-task learning(MTL)framework using convolutional neural networks for the joint inference of the underlying narrowband signal number,their modulation scheme,and their location in a wideband spectrum.We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework for real-world millimeter-wave wideband signals collected by physical devices,exhibiting a 91.7% accuracy in the joint inference task when considering up to two narrowband signals over a wideband spectrum.Ultimately,the proposed data-driven approach enables on-the-fly wideband spectrum sensing,combining accuracy,and computational efficiency,which are indispensable for CR and opportunistic networking.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number:62172292).
文摘Vehicle re-identification involves matching images of vehicles across varying camera views.The diversity of camera locations along different roadways leads to significant intra-class variation and only minimal inter-class similarity in the collected vehicle images,which increases the complexity of re-identification tasks.To tackle these challenges,this study proposes AG-GCN(Attention-Guided Graph Convolutional Network),a novel framework integrating several pivotal components.Initially,AG-GCN embeds a lightweight attention module within the ResNet-50 structure to learn feature weights automatically,thereby improving the representation of vehicle features globally by highlighting salient features and suppressing extraneous ones.Moreover,AG-GCN adopts a graph-based structure to encapsulate deep local features.A graph convolutional network then amalgamates these features to understand the relationships among vehicle-related characteristics.Subsequently,we amalgamate feature maps from both the attention and graph-based branches for a more comprehensive representation of vehicle features.The framework then gauges feature similarities and ranks them,thus enhancing the accuracy of vehicle re-identification.Comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analyses on two publicly available datasets verify the efficacy of AG-GCN in addressing intra-class and inter-class variability issues.
基金supported by the National Defense Pre-Research Foundation of China during the“14th Five-Year Plan”under Grant No.629010204.
文摘Neural network-based methods for intrapulse modulation recognition in radar signals have demonstrated significant improvements in classification accuracy.However,these approaches often rely on complex network structures,resulting in high computational resource requirements that limit their practical deployment in real-world settings.To address this issue,this paper proposes a bottleneck residual network with efficient soft-thresholding(BRN-EST)network,which integrates multiple lightweight design strategies and noise-reduction modules to maintain high recognition accuracy while significantly reducing computational complexity.Experimental results on the classical low-probability-of-intercept(LPI)radar signal dataset demonstrate that BRN-EST achieves comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art methods while reducing computational complexity by approximately 50%.
基金This paper is partially supported by Open Fund for Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology(HGAMTL-1703)Guangxi Key Laboratory of Trusted Software(kx201901)+5 种基金Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(CDLS-2020-03)Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science(Southeast University),Ministry of EducationRoyal Society International Exchanges Cost Share Award,UK(RP202G0230)Medical Research Council Confidence in Concept Award,UK(MC_PC_17171)Hope Foundation for Cancer Research,UK(RM60G0680)British Heart Foundation Accelerator Award,UK.
文摘Aim: To diagnose COVID-19 more efficiently and more correctly, this study proposed a novel attention network forCOVID-19 (ANC). Methods: Two datasets were used in this study. An 18-way data augmentation was proposed toavoid overfitting. Then, convolutional block attention module (CBAM) was integrated to our model, the structureof which is fine-tuned. Finally, Grad-CAM was used to provide an explainable diagnosis. Results: The accuracyof our ANC methods on two datasets are 96.32% ± 1.06%, and 96.00% ± 1.03%, respectively. Conclusions: Thisproposed ANC method is superior to 9 state-of-the-art approaches.
文摘Radio modulation classification has always been an important technology in the field of communications.The difficulty of incremental learning in radio modulation classification is that learning new tasks will lead to catastrophic forgetting of old tasks.In this paper,we propose a sample memory and recall framework for incremental learning of radio modulation classification.For data with different signal-to-noise ratios,we use a partial memory strategy by selecting appropriate samples for memorizing.We compare the performance of our proposed method with three baselines through a large number of simulation experiments.Results show that our method achieves far higher classification accuracy than finetuning method and feature extraction method.Furthermore,it performs closely to joint training method which uses all old data in terms of classification accuracy which validates the effectiveness of our method against catastrophic forgetting.
文摘Deep learning technology is widely used in computer vision.Generally,a large amount of data is used to train the model weights in deep learning,so as to obtain a model with higher accuracy.However,massive data and complex model structures require more calculating resources.Since people generally can only carry and use mobile and portable devices in application scenarios,neural networks have limitations in terms of calculating resources,size and power consumption.Therefore,the efficient lightweight model MobileNet is used as the basic network in this study for optimization.First,the accuracy of the MobileNet model is improved by adding methods such as the convolutional block attention module(CBAM)and expansion convolution.Then,the MobileNet model is compressed by using pruning and weight quantization algorithms based on weight size.Afterwards,methods such as Python crawlers and data augmentation are employed to create a garbage classification data set.Based on the above model optimization strategy,the garbage classification mobile terminal application is deployed on mobile phones and raspberry pies,realizing completing the garbage classification task more conveniently.
文摘The infrastructure and construction of roads are crucial for the economic and social development of a region,but traffic-related challenges like accidents and congestion persist.Artificial Intelligence(AI)and Machine Learning(ML)have been used in road infrastructure and construction,particularly with the Internet of Things(IoT)devices.Object detection in Computer Vision also plays a key role in improving road infrastructure and addressing trafficrelated problems.This study aims to use You Only Look Once version 7(YOLOv7),Convolutional Block Attention Module(CBAM),the most optimized object-detection algorithm,to detect and identify traffic signs,and analyze effective combinations of adaptive optimizers like Adaptive Moment estimation(Adam),Root Mean Squared Propagation(RMSprop)and Stochastic Gradient Descent(SGD)with the YOLOv7.Using a portion of German traffic signs for training,the study investigates the feasibility of adopting smaller datasets while maintaining high accuracy.The model proposed in this study not only improves traffic safety by detecting traffic signs but also has the potential to contribute to the rapid development of autonomous vehicle systems.The study results showed an impressive accuracy of 99.7%when using a batch size of 8 and the Adam optimizer.This high level of accuracy demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed model for the image classification task of traffic sign recognition.
