宽带双曲调频信号参数化时频分析波达方向估计

针对有源探测或脉冲侦查中双曲调频信号的波达方向估计问题,提出了基于参数化时频变换(PTFT)的多重信号分类(MUSIC)测向算法,简称PTFT-MUSIC算法。该算法由发射信号确定针对双曲调频信号的参数化变换核,对接收信号进行频域参数化时频变换,利用获得的时频分布建立阵列信号时频分布模型,并以此模型设计基于时频分布矩阵的MUSIC算法以实现双曲调频信号的波达方向估计。通过仿真和实验对该算法的估计误差和多目标分辨性能进行了分析,仿真和海上实验结果表明:相比现有的时频MUSIC算法,PTFT-MUSIC算法能有效提高空间谱分辨率和波达方向估计性能,同时该算法拥有对特定调频信号筛选性,结合时频域滤波算法能有效抑制相干直达波干扰,应用于多基地声呐系统时有效提高了声呐定位性能。     

联合稀疏表示在水下目标分类中的应用

水下目标分类识别的性能受所选特征的限制,多特征往往可以获得更加稳定的结果,针对这一问题,提出了一种基于联合稀疏表示模型的水下目标分类识别方法。首先对水下目标回波信号提取3种具有信息互补性与关联性的特征:中心矩特征、小波包能量谱特征、梅尔频率倒谱系数特征,然后应用加速近端梯度法对联合稀疏表示模型进行优化,求解得到最优联合稀疏系数,最后根据最小误差准则确定目标类别。在消声水池开展模拟实验,对6类目标进行分类识别,结果表明:与传统算法相比,提出的算法具有更高识别准确率,并且其执行效率较传统算法有很大提升。      

Research on Channel Selection and Multi-Feature Fusion of EEG Signals for Mental Fatigue Detection

With the rapid development of modern social science and technology, the pace of life is getting faster, and brain fatigue has become a sub-health state that seriously affects the normal life of people. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals reflect changes in the central nervous system. Using EEG signals to assess mental fatigue is a research hotspot in related fields. Most existing fatigue detection methods are time-consuming or don’t achieve satisfactory results due to insufficient features extracted from EEG signals. In this paper, a 2-back task is designed to induce fatigue. The weight value of each channel under a single feature is calculated by ReliefF algorithm. The classification accuracy of each channel under the corresponding features is analyzed. The classification accuracy of each single channel is combined to perform weighted summation to obtain the weight value of each channel. The first half channels sorted in descending order based on the weight value is chosen as the common channels. Multi-features in frequency and time domains are extracted from the common channel data, and the sparse representation method is used to perform feature fusion to obtain sparse fused features. Finally, the SRDA classifier is used to detect the fatigue state. Experimental results show that the proposed methods in our work effectively reduce the number of channels for computation and also improve the mental fatigue detection accuracy.     

Design and performance of WH-spread CI/MC-CDMA with iterative interference cancellation receiver

This paper addresses a novel Walsh–Hadamard (WH)-spread multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) system which employs carrier interferometry (CI) codes in a multiuser environment. In frequency selective channels, phase characteristics of CI codes ensure better estimates of received WH-spread CI/MC-CDMA signals. Estimation of multiple access interference (MAI) becomes more reliable with time and frequency diversities of CI/MC-CDMA signals with spreading gain diversity of WH codes over multipath channels. Interference cancellation (IC) is done by taking hard and soft estimates of received data bits. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed multiple access scheme with iterative decoding offer a significant performance gain over WH-spread MC-CDMA and CI/MC-CDMA over multipath channels. We observe that WH-spread CI/MC-CDMA maintains a stable envelope of the transmitted signal as that of CI/MC-CDMA. In an overloaded situation, the proposed multiple access scheme provides a low peak to the average power ratio (PAPR) compared to conventional MC-CDMA for multirate systems which supports simultaneous transmission of high and low data rate users.     

基于循环前缀相关性的水声OFDM信号调制识别方法*

本文研究水声OFDM通信信号与常见单载波水声数字通信信号(MPSK,MFSK)之间的调制识别问题。考虑到水声信道复杂传播特性对循环前缀相关性的影响,本文通过截取信号前后片段并迭代搜索双相关峰进行无需先验知识的水声OFDM通信信号特征参数提取,在此基础上设计了一种基于模糊系统的水声OFDM通信信号识别器。对不同信道条件下海上实录信号数据的识别实验结果表明了本文方法的有效性。     

基于深度多分支特征融合网络的光学遥感场景分类

针对遥感图像背景复杂且存在某场景图像中关键物体小且尺度变化较大,需提升模型表征能力来准确辨别各类场景的问题,提出了一种深度多分支特征融合网络的方法进行遥感图像场景分类.利用多分支网络结构提取高、中、低三个层次的特征信息,将三个层次的特征进行基于拆分-融合-聚合的分组融合,最后为了关注难辨别样本和标签位置损失,提出一种损失函数.试验结果证明,本文所提出的方法对于提高分类准确率十分有效,在UCM、AID和OPTIMAL三个数据集上的准确率超过其他算法.在数据集UCM上80%样本训练,准确率达到了99.29%,与ARCNet-VGG16算法相比分类准确率提高了1.35%.在数据集AID上50%样本训练,准确率达到了95.56%,与Two-Stream算法相比提高了0.98%.在数据集OPTIMAL上80%样本训练,准确率达到95.43%,与ARCNet-VGG16算法相比提升2.73%.     

Union bounds on the symbol error probability of LoRa modulation for flat Rician block fading channels

In this paper the symbol error performance of LoRa modulation is addressed for flat Rician block fading channels. First the exact symbol error probability of the LoRa modulation on Rician fading is derived. Then the upper and lower union bounds are employed on the derived symbol error probability. The proposed bounds are compared against the exact symbol error probability, the numerical evaluation of the symbol error probability and the state-of-art approximation of the LoRa symbol error probability. Numerical results show that while the proposed upper bound is very tight to the exact symbol error probability, there is approximately a 2.5 dB gap for the lower bound.     

TCVQ-SVM algorithm for narrowband spectrum sensing

Spectrum sensing is viewed as the basic and crucial technology for cognitive radio. To improve the accuracy of spectrum sensing in low signal to noise ratio (SNR), this paper presents an efficient TCVQ-SVM method based on machine learning for narrowband spectrum sensing. Firstly, trace of covariance matrix and variance of quadratic covariance matrix (TCVQ) is extracted as feature vectors and combined as training samples of spectrum sensing. Then, the classification model can be achieved by training samples based on support vector machine (SVM), which can avoid setting threshold and adjusting classification hyperplane by its self-learning ability. Lastly, the result of spectrum sensing can be obtained. By utilizing trace and variance as input features of SVM, the algorithm can make full use of the eigenvalue difference and structure characteristic of the received signal, and at the same time, achieve good performance in low SNR. Theoretical analysis reveals that the proposed method has low computational complexity. Simulation results and experiments on the hardware platform illustrate that the proposed algorithm is effective and robust.     

Multiplexing and transmission of RF signals using an optical fiber

Ultrasonic non-destructive testing systems designed to control huge structures normally use several transducers in the reception stage. To avoid increasing the cost of electronics, a multiplexer is used to send all received signals to the same processing module. Traditionally, transmission of such signals is carried out using copper cables. For special applications (i.e. continuous monitoring of nuclear plants) metallic cables are not suitable because of their high sensitivity to electromagnetic perturbations. Moreover, the multiplexing is made electronically. When the distance between the transducers and the reception unit is large and/or electromagnetic noise is important, signal degradation takes place. The proposed system implements the transmission and multiplexing of ultrasonic electrical signals obtained by means of broadband transducers (up to 1 MHz), using an optical fiber. Optical fibers are made of dielectric materials (silica or plastic) so they are inherently passive to electromagnetic noise. Wavelength division multiplexing is utilized for adding channels to the system by means of fiber optic couplers and different light sources. The wavelengths of the optical signals utilized are located far apart in the optical spectrum in order to avoid serious crosstalk in transmission. The limit to the number of multiplexed channels depends on the optical fiber selected, the spectrum of the light sources and the wavelength division multiplexers or couplers utilized.     

基于矢量化差分相位的单分布源解耦二维波达方向估计

在分布源(包括相干分布源和非相干分布源)的二维波达方向估计中,均匀圆阵由于可实现全方位测角、具有较高的分辨率,得到了广泛的应用,然而现有的估计算法均需要谱峰搜索和特征值分解,复杂度较高.针对此问题,考虑单个相干分布源或非相干分布源入射两种情况,提出了一种基于矢量化差分相位的解耦二维波达方向快速估计算法.该算法首先基于空间频率近似模型,证明了任意单个分布源入射时,均匀圆阵中不同阵元接收信号间的差分相位均不受角度扩展参数的影响;基于此特性,通过获取差分相位即可实现中心波达角的解耦合;接下来,提取采样协方差矩阵的严格上三角元素相位,即对应于各阵元间的差分相位,并进行矢量化处理,最终将波达方向估计问题转化为一个最小二乘问题,从而直接得到闭式解,避免了谱峰搜索和特征值分解运算,大幅度降低了复杂度.理论分析和仿真实验表明,所提算法具有较高的估计精度,并且无需角信号分布的先验信息,同时具备较低的计算复杂度和硬件复杂度,有利于复杂环境下阵列测向等工程实践.     

Fuzzy inspired image classification algorithm for hyperspectral data using three-dimensional log-Gabor features

In hyperspectral image classification problems, the discriminative efficiency of the classifier depends on the features. To classify the heterogeneous classes present in hyperspectral imagery, biologically inspired models such as log-Gabor features are useful as they exhibit joint spatial-spectral characteristics of each pixel. Log-Gabor features occupy the state-of-the-art hyperspectral research domain for extracting the features at different scales and orientations. In this proposed work, three-dimensional log-Gabor wavelets with different scales and orientations are designed to obtain the complete spatial, spectral and joint spatial-spectral characteristics of individual pixels in the hyperspectral data. Aiming to improve the accuracy, a simple fuzzy inspired algorithm is also proposed. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated and is compared with other existing methods and supremacy is observed. The proposed methods are experimented on airborne visible infrared imaging sensor (AVIRIS) data of Indian Pine Site. The results witness the accuracy of 92.13% even while only 5% of the samples in each class were used for training for 3D log-Gabor features. Fuzzy inspired 3D log-Gabor features produce the accuracy of 93.11% for 5% training samples.     

A blind separation algorithm for underdetermined convolutional mixed communication signals based on time–frequency soft mask

This paper focuses on the separation for time–frequency (TF) overlapped communication signals received by the sensors. A novel blind separation strategy is proposed to improve the poor performance of signal separation by traditional algorithms for convolutional mixtures in underdetermined cases. Firstly, the number of sources and cluster centers are obtained in the sparse domain by combining the density peak clustering (DPC) with fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering algorithm; Then the GMM clustering algorithm is applied to calculate the membership degree of the source signal in the mixed signals, so as to construct a TF soft mask matrix to more precisely carry out separation for TF overlapped signals. In this paper, the separation simulations are conducted with the digital modulation signals of 2ASK, BPSK, QPSK, etc. The results show that the algorithm proposed in this paper has better anti-aliasing and anti-noise performance than the comparison algorithms.     

基于L型延迟阵列调制宽带转换器的信号载频和二维到达角联合估计

针对现有的基于欠采样的频率和二维到达角的联合估计存在结构复杂问题,本文提出了一种基于调制宽带转换器技术的L型延迟阵列接收结构.利用延迟通道与未延迟通道采样值之间的相位差可直接估计载频,进而计算二维到达角,无需额外的参数配对操作,避免了配对步骤引入的误差和复杂度的提升.并结合所提L型延迟阵列结构的特点构造相关矩阵和三线性模型,提出了两种参数估计算法,一种基于旋转不变子空间算法,计算量小,适用于需要实时处理的场景;另一种基于正则分解技术,鲁棒性较好,适用于信噪比较低的应用场景.仿真实验表明该方法能较好地从欠奈奎斯特样本中估计目标的载频和二维到达角参数.     

A one-dimension convolutional neural network based interference classification method

Interference is a common problem in wireless communication, navigation and radar systems. A wide variety of interferences are used to degrade the communication quality especially in electronic warfare environment. In modern military communication systems, interference classification is an important module for its ability to obtain prior interference information before adopting related anti-interference method. This paper proposes a deep learning based interference classification method, which applies one-dimension convolutional neural networks to automatically extract interference features for classification. Computer simulations show better classification performance and lower computational complexity. Meanwhile, this proposed method is implied on software defined radios (SDR) hardware, more than 99% correct classification probability can be achieved with limited samples of the received signal, which verifies the robustness of this proposed method.     

Quantifying time-varying coordination of multimodal speech signals using correlation map analysis

This paper demonstrates an algorithm for computing the instantaneous correlation coefficient between two signals. The algorithm is the computational engine for analyzing the time-varying coordination between signals, which is called correlation map analysis (CMA). Correlation is computed around any pair of points in the two input signals. Thus, coordination can be assessed across a continuous range of temporal offsets and be detected even when changing over time due to temporal fluctuations. The correlation algorithm has two major features: (i) it is structurally similar to a tunable filter, requiring only one parameter to set its cutoff frequency (and sensitivity), (ii) it can be applied either uni-directionally (computing correlation based only on previous samples) or bi-directionally (computing correlation based on both previous and future samples). Computing instantaneous correlation for a range of time offsets between two signals produces a 2D correlation map, in which correlation is characterized as a function of time and temporal offset. Graphic visualization of the correlation map provides rapid assessment of how correspondence patterns progress through time. The utility of the algorithm and of CMA are exemplified using the spatial and temporal coordination of various audible and visible components associated with linguistic performance.     

基于自适应无参经验小波变换和选择集成分类模型的运动想象

运动想象模式识别率的提高对脑机接口(BCI)技术的应用具有重要意义,本文采用自适应无参经验小波变换(APEWT)和选择集成分类模型相结合的方法提高脑电(EEG)信号的分类识别准确率.首先,通过APEWT将EEG信号分解成不同的模态;然后,使用最优模态重构后的信号计算其能量谱(ES)特征,使用最优模态分量计算其边际谱(MS)特征;最后,将不同时间段的ES特征和不同频段的MS特征输入到构建的选择集成分类模型中,从而得到其分类结果,并将该方法与其他4种组合方法进行比较.实验结果表明,本文方法具有较好分类准确率和实时性,其平均分类正确率高于其他4种方法,同时较近期使用相同数据的文献也有优势.本文为在线运动想象类BCI的应用提供了新的方法和思路.     

Combined Signal Processing Based Techniques and Feed Forward Neural Networks for Pathological Voice Detection and Classification

This paper presents the pathological voice detection and classification techniques using signal processing based methodologies and Feed Forward Neural Networks (FFNN). The important pathological voices such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Down Syndrome (DS) are considered for analysis. These pathological voices are known to manifest in different ways in the speech of children and adults. Therefore, it is possible to discriminate ASD and DS children from normal ones using the acoustic features extracted from the speech of these subjects. The important attributes hidden in the pathological voices are extracted by applying different signal processing techniques. In this work, three group of feature vectors such as perturbation measures, noise parameters and spectral-cepstral modeling are derived from the signals. The detection and classification is done by means of Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN) classifier trained with Scaled Conjugate Gradient (SCG) algorithm. The performance of the network is evaluated by finding various performance metrics and the the experimental results clearly demonstrate that the proposed method gives better performance compared with other methods discussed in the literature.     

Predominant environmental noise classification over sound mixing based on source-specific dictionary

This paper presents a methodology to classify predominant urban acoustic sources in real mixed signals. This is based on a source-specific dictionary with atoms in the time–frequency domain using the Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) algorithm and identifying the class through a proposed selection criterion with a dynamic number of iterations involving a lower algorithm complexity. Several time–frequency atoms were evaluated considering retained energy and relative error to build a source-specific dictionary in the relevant classes. The source-specific dictionary has better results up to 7% in retained energy than to use an individual dictionary such as based on wavelet or Gabor functions, improving classification of predominant sources over sound mixing up to 9% compared to using standard dictionaries. Experimental results on classification are applied to mixture inter-class signals of two or more sources recorded by a real permanent monitoring system in an urban soundscape. The classification performance has successfully achieved identifying a predominant source in real inter-class mixtures of urban soundscapes.     

基于时频分析的多目标盲波束形成算法

针对现有盲波束形成算法适用范围较窄, 多目标信号分离级联模式结构复杂、并联模式稳定性较差等问题, 提出一种基于时频分析的多目标盲波束形成算法. 该算法首先利用时频分析技术给出信号导向矢量的不确定集, 然后优化求解导向矢量的最优估计, 最后利用Capon方法实现多目标信号的并行输出. 理论分析及仿真结果表明, 该算法对信号特性没有特殊要求, 适用性较广, 性能稳定, 且输出信干噪比高于其他盲波束形成算法, 接近于最优Capon波束形成器.     

Detecting Unfavorable Driving States in Electroencephalography Based on a PCA Sample Entropy Feature and Multiple Classification Algorithms

Unfavorable driving states can cause a large number of vehicle crashes and are significant factors in leading to traffic accidents. Hence, the aim of this research is to design a robust system to detect unfavorable driving states based on sample entropy feature analysis and multiple classification algorithms. Multi-channel Electroencephalography (EEG) signals are recorded from 16 participants while performing two types of driving tasks. For the purpose of selecting optimal feature sets for classification, principal component analysis (PCA) is adopted for reducing dimensionality of feature sets. Multiple classification algorithms, namely, K nearest neighbor (KNN), decision tree (DT), support vector machine (SVM) and logistic regression (LR) are employed to improve the accuracy of unfavorable driving state detection. We use 10-fold cross-validation to assess the performance of the proposed systems. It is found that the proposed detection system, based on PCA features and the cubic SVM classification algorithm, shows robustness as it obtains the highest accuracy of 97.81%, sensitivity of 96.93%, specificity of 98.73% and precision of 98.75%. Experimental results show that the system we designed can effectively monitor unfavorable driving states.