A lightweight multi-channel feature fusion approach for automatic modulation recognition
摘要
To address the challenges of large model size and insufficient feature representation in automatic modulation recognition under complex electromagnetic environments, in this paper, a deep learning model based on multi-channel feature fusion is proposed. and a lightweight self-attention mechanism. A multi-branch input network is constructed to extract the I/Q sequence and two additional single-sequence features of the signal. A lightweight self-attention module is designed, incorporating a channel grouping mechanism and a sparse connection strategy to efficiently utilize spatial and channel features while reducing computational complexity. On the public dataset RML2016.10a, the proposed model reduces the number of parameters by approximately 60% compared to the MCLDNN model and achieves a maximum classification accuracy of 93.2%. Classification performance is significantly improved while a lightweight architecture is maintained by this approach, offering an effective solution for real-time signal processing in requiring lightweight implementations.