Research on the Enhancement Method of Specific Emitter Open Set Recognition

Open set recognition (OSR) aims at dealing with unknown classes that are not included in the train set. However, existing OSR methods rely on deep learning networks that perform supervised learning on known classes in the train set, resulting in poor performance when the unknown class is very similar to the known class. Considering the subtle individual differences under the same type in specific emitter identification (SEI) applications, it is difficult to distinguish between known classes and unknown classes in open set scenarios. This paper proposes a pseudo signal generation and recognition neural network (PSGRNN) to address relevant problems in this situation. PSGRNN applies complex-value convolution operations to accommodate IQ signal inputs. Its key idea is to utilize samples of known classes to generate pseudo samples of unknown classes. Then, the samples of known classes and the generated pseudo samples of unknown classes are jointly input into the neural network to construct a new classification task for training. Moreover, the center loss is improved by adding inter-class penalties to maximize the inter-class difference. This helps to learn useful information for separating known and unknown classes, resulting in clearer decision boundaries between the known and the unknown. Extensive experiments on various benchmark signal datasets indicate that the proposed method achieves more accurate and robust open set classification results, with an average accuracy improvement of 4.62%.