Multidimensional Attention Convolution Plugin for Ship Radiated Noise Classification
摘要
In the passive recognition task of ship radiated noise, the efficiency of extracting relevant classification information from the noise directly affects the classification results. This study proposed a multidimensional attentional convolution (MAConv) module as a fundamental component for capturing decisive classification information. Drawing inspiration from dynamic convolutional methods such as CondConv, we perform multidimensional attentional integration in three dimensions: input channel, output channel, and spatial channel, which involves a linear combination of different static convolutional kernels. The weights of the combination are data-dependent, with different samples using different weights, so the network will focus on different input channels, output channels and spatial channels depending on the samples in classification. As a drop-in replacement of traditional convolutions, MAConv can be easily integrated into popular CNN architectures, and subsequent experimental results on the open-source dataset Deepship show that CNN networks using the MAConv plugin can significantly improve the performance of ship radiation noise classification.