In the modern electronic warfare signal environment, multiple radar signals of high density are mixed and received, and separating them into signals for each emitter is an essential step for emitter identification. Each radar has its own pulse repetition interval (PRI), which is a key parameter for deinterleaving pulse trains. The PRI is modulated in various forms depending on the purpose of the radar operation, and analyzing the mean PRI and the modulation type of PRI is the core of electronic warfare signal processing. Many existing papers have tried separate independent approaches for deinterleaving and for PRI modulation recognition. However, many distortions are unintentionally generated in the process of extracting the pulse train using the PRI estimated through deinterleaving for the PRI modulation recognition. This degrades the modulation recognition performance. In this paper, we propose a unified method for the deinterleaving and PRI modulation recognition of radar pulses using deep learning-based multitasking learning. The simulation results demonstrate the good performance of the proposed method for deinterleaving and modulation recognition, compared to the conventional method, and prove that the proposed method is robust in noisy radar signal environments.
Energy theft refers to the intentional and illegal usage of electricity by various means. A number of studies have been conducted on energy theft detection in the advanced metering infrastructure using machine learning methods. However, applying machine learning for energy theft detection has a problem in that it is difficult to obtain enough electricity theft data to train a machine learning model. In this paper, we propose a method based on anomaly pattern detection to detect electricity theft in data streams generated from smart meters. The proposed method requires only normal energy consumption data to train the model. Previous usage records of customers being monitored are not needed for energy theft detection. This characteristic makes the proposed method applicable in real situations. Experiments were conducted using real smart meter data and artificial attack data, including the preprocessing of daily consumption vectors by standard normalization, the construction of an outlier detection model on normal electricity consumption data of randomly chosen customers, and the application of anomaly pattern detection on test data streams. Some promising results were obtained, notably, that attacks of types 4, 5, 6 were detected with an average F1 value of 0.93 and average delay of 19 days.
A holographic display system with a 22-inch LCD panel is developed to provide a wide viewing angle and large holographic 3D image. It is realized by steering a narrow viewing window resulting from a very large pixel pitch compared to the wave length of the laser light. Point light sources and a lens array make it possible to arbitrarily control the position of the viewing window for a moving observer. The holographic display provides both eyes of the observer with a holographic 3D image using two vertically placed LCD panels and a beam splitter to support the holographic stereogram.
24 January 2020 in Security and Communication Networks
Jamming is a form of electronic warfare where jammers radiate interfering signals toward an enemy radar, disrupting the receiver. The conventional method for determining an effective jamming technique corresponding to a threat signal is based on the library which stores the appropriate jamming method for signal types. However, there is a limit to the use of a library when a threat signal of a new type or a threat signal that has been altered differently from existing types is received. In this paper, we study two methods of predicting the appropriate jamming technique for a received threat signal using deep learning: using a deep neural network on feature values extracted manually from the PDW list and using long short-term memory (LSTM) which takes the PDW list as input. Using training data consisting of pairs of threat signals and corresponding jamming techniques, a deep learning model is trained which outputs jamming techniques for threat signal inputs. Training data are constructed based on the information in the library, but the trained deep learning model is used to predict jamming techniques for received threat signals without using the library. The prediction performance and time complexity of two proposed methods are compared. In particular, the ability to predict jamming techniques for unknown types of radar signals which are not used in the stage of training the model is analyzed.
9 July 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Driving is an essential activity in today's busy and complex society, and it demands physical and mental abilities, collectively known as a driving workload. For safe and comfortable driving, it would be useful to detect when drivers are being overloaded. Analyzing driver's workload using an electroencephalograph (EEG) is useful for this purpose. However, it is very inconvenient to obtain an EEG during actual driving, since the measuring device needs to be attached to the driver. In this paper, we develop a model to predict the driver's EEG level utilizing basic information obtained while the vehicle is being driven. We divided the EEG values into two classes, ``normal'' and ``overload'', and extracted useful features from the vehicle driving information, such as engine RPM, vehicle speed, lane changes, and turns. A classification model using a support vector machine was built to predict normal and overload states during actual driving. We evaluated the performance of the proposed method using field-of-test data collected when driving on actual roads, and suggest directions for future research based on an analysis of the experimental results.