HF-YOLO: A Model for High Frequency Signal Detection and Recognition in Wideband
摘要
Wideband high frequency (HF) signal detection is crucial for radio intelligence operations. However, multiple signals coexisting within a wideband spectrum, combined with dispersive and time-varying HF channels, complicates signal detection. This paper proposes a novel method called High Frequency-You Only Look Once (HF-YOLO) to address the above problems. Specifically, HF-YOLO processes wideband time-frequency image (WTFI) as input. An Inception feature extraction (IFE) module, based on the Inception architecture and group convolution, is proposed to improve the modeling of strip-distributed signals in WTFI while reducing computational complexity. Additionally, a time-frequency attention (TFA) module is introduced and improved considering the narrow bandwidth and strong temporal correlation of HF signals. The TFA effectively suppresses out-of-band interference and improves the detection of weak signals. To evaluate performance, a dataset called wideband time-frequency image dataset (WTFID) is constructed comprising a variety of HF signals covering diverse communication scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that HF-YOLO achieves high detection accuracy and real-time performance even in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) below 0 dB, confirming the effectiveness of HF-YOLO under complex channel conditions.