Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (11): 3912-3919.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2024.11.33

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Radiation source signal recognition method based on binary neural networks

Huifu WANG1,2, Mingfei MEI1,2, Liang QI2, Heng CHAI3, Shifei TAO1,*   

  1. 1. School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
    2. Nanhu Laboratory, Jiaxing 314000, China
    3. 723 Research Institute, Shipbuilding Group Limited of China, Yangzhou 225000, China
  • Received:2023-07-31 Online:2024-10-28 Published:2024-11-30
  • Contact: Shifei TAO

Abstract:

In response to the issues of parameter redundancy and high computational complexity in neural networks used for radiation source signal recognition, a radiation source signal recognition method based on binary neural network is proposed. The method proposes using the utility value of the convolution layer to measure the importance of the neural network's convolution layers. Based on the size of the utility value of the convolution layer, important convolution layers are retained as real values, while the remaining convolution layers are binarized. The experimental results show that when the signal-to-noise ratio is greater than -9 dB, the accuracy of signal recognition of the binary neural network obtained using this method is reduced by 0.5% compared to the real-valued convolutional neural network, while the network parameter memory size is reduced by 83.4%, the network computation is reduced by 83.8%, and the network computing complexity is reduced by 85.8%, and it is easy to deploy on various hardware platforms.

Key words: radiation source signal recognition, binary neural network, convolution layer utility value, network complexity

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