Aiming to solve the problems of false detection, missed detection, and insufficient detection ability of infrared vehicle images, an infrared vehicle target detection algorithm based on the improved YOLOv5 is proposed. The article analyzes the image characteristics of infrared vehicle detection, and then discusses the improved YOLOv5 algorithm in detail. The algorithm uses the DenseBlock module to increase the ability of shallow feature extraction. The Ghost convolution layer is used to replace the ordinary convolution layer, which increases the redundant feature graph based on linear calculation, improves the network feature extraction ability, and increases the amount of information from the original image. The detection accuracy of the whole network is enhanced by adding a channel attention mechanism and modifying loss function. Finally, the improved performance and comprehensive improved performance of each module are compared with common algorithms. Experimental results show that the detection accuracy of the DenseBlock and EIOU module added alone are improved by 2.5% and 3% compared with the original YOLOv5 algorithm, respectively, and the addition of the Ghost convolution module and SE module alone does not increase significantly. By using the EIOU module as the loss function, the three modules of DenseBlock, Ghost convolution and SE Layer are added to the YOLOv5 algorithm for comparative analysis, of which the combination of DenseBlock and Ghost convolution has the best effect. When adding three modules at the same time, the mAP fluctuation is smaller, which can reach 73.1%, which is 4.6% higher than the original YOLOv5 algorithm.

Automatic modulation recognition (AMR) is a critical technology in spatial cognitive radio (SCR), and building high-performance AMR model can achieve high classification accuracy of signals. AMR is a classification problem essentially, and deep learning has achieved excellent performance in various classification tasks. In recent years, joint recognition of multiple networks has become increasingly popular. In complex wireless environments, there are multiple signal types and diversity of characteristics between different signals. Also, the existence of multiple interference in wireless environment makes the signal characteristics more complex. It is difficult for a single network to accurately extract the unique features of all signals and achieve accurate classification. So, this article proposes a time–frequency domain joint recognition model that combines two deep learning networks (DLNs), to achieve higher accuracy AMR. A DLN named MCLDNN (multi-channel convolutional long short-term deep neural network) is trained on samples composed of in-phase and quadrature component (IQ) signals, to distinguish modulation modes that are relatively easy to identify. This paper proposes a BiGRU3 (three-layer bidirectional gated recurrent unit) network based on FFT as the second DLN. For signals with significant similarity in the time domain and significant differences in the frequency domain that are difficult to distinguish by the former DLN, such as AM-DSB and WBFM, FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) is used to obtain frequency domain amplitude and phase (FDAP) information. Experiments have shown that the BiGUR3 network has superior extraction performance for amplitude spectrum and phase spectrum features. Experiments are conducted on two publicly available datasets, the RML2016.10a and RML2016.10b, and the results show that the overall recognition accuracy of the proposed joint model reaches 94.94% and 96.69%, respectively. Compared to a single network, the recognition accuracy is significantly improved. At the same time, the recognition accuracy of AM-DSB and WBFM signals has been improved by 17% and 18.2%, respectively.

Fixed frequency beam-scanning leaky-wave antennas have been a focus of attention for many scholars in recent years, and numerous related results have been obtained. However, these antennas suffer from several issues such as small beam-scanning range, low gain, and unsatisfactory impedance matching. To address these problems, this paper proposes a microstrip line (ML) antenna unit based on liquid crystal (LC) materials etched Complementary Split Ring Resonator (CSRR). In a first-of-its-kind approach, the substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) structure and the ML transmission structure are combined to present the SIW-ML transmission structure. The antenna operates in the Ka-band with excellent resonance characteristics at 34.7 GHz, and the S11 parameters are below − 13 dB in the frequency range of 30–40 GHz, indicating outstanding impedance matching. By arranging 56 antenna units, a periodic leaky-wave antenna is created, enabling fixed-frequency beam-scanning at 34.7 GHz. Experimental results show that the antenna can achieve scanning of angles between − 53° and + 60° with a gain of up to 12.63 dB. Once single-beam scanning is achieved, a method combining LC and discrete amplitude weighting technique, as well as multi-beam theory, is proposed for multi-beam study. Experimental results reveal that the designed 56-unit beam-scanning antenna can effectively realize beam scanning in two directions.

Automatic modulation recognition (AMR) plays an essential role in modern communication systems. In recent years, various modulation recognition algorithms based on deep learning have been emerging, but the problem of low recognition accuracy has not been solved well. To solve this problem, based on the existing MCLDNN algorithm, in this paper, we proposed an improved spatiotemporal multi-channel network (IQ-related features Multi-channel Convolutional Bi-LSTM with Gaussian noise, IQGMCL). Firstly, dividing the input IQ signals into three channels, time sequence feature extraction is carried out for route I, route Q, and route IQ, respectively. For route IQ, convolution kernel (2,1) is first used to extract relevant features. Two layers of the small convolution kernel (1,3) are used to extract time sequence features further, and the three channels are used to extract features further. Then, a two-layer short-length memory network is used to extract features from time and space more effectively. Through comparison experiments, Bi-LSTM is introduced to replace one layer of LSTM, and a fully connected layer is removed to prevent overfitting. Finally, multiplicative Gaussian noise is introduced to naturally corrode the feature parameters, further improving the robustness and accuracy of the model. Experiments are carried out on three public datasets RML2016.10a, RML2016.10b, and RML2016.04C. The experiments show that the IQGMCL network has higher recognition accuracies on all datasets, especially on the RML2016.10a dataset. When the SNR is 4 dB, the recognition accuracy reaches 93.52%. When the SNR is greater than 0 dB, the average recognition accuracy reaches 92.3%, 1.31%, and 1.2% higher than the original MCLDNN network, respectively.

Currently, dealing directly with in-phase and quadrature time series data using the deep learning method is widely used in signal modulation classification. However, there is a relative lack of methods that consider the complex properties of signals. Therefore, to make full use of the inherent relationship between in-phase and quadrature time series data, a complex-valued hybrid neural network (CV-PET-CSGDNN) based on the existing PET-CGDNN network is proposed in this paper, which consists of phase parameter estimation, parameter transformation, and complex-valued signal feature extraction layers. The complex-valued signal feature extraction layers are composed of complex-valued convolutional neural networks (CNN), complex-valued gate recurrent units (GRU), squeeze-and-excite (SE) blocks, and complex-valued dense neural networks (DNN). The proposed network can improve the extraction of the intrinsic relationship between in-phase and quadrature time series data with low capacity and then improve the accuracy of modulation classification. Experiments are carried out on RML2016.10a and RML2018.01a. The results show that, compared with ResNet, CLDNN, MCLDNN, PET-CGDNN, and CV-ResNet models, our proposed complex-valued neural network (CVNN) achieves the highest average accuracy of 61.50% and 62.92% for automatic modulation classification, respectively. In addition, the proposed CV-PET-CSGDNN has a significant improvement in the misjudgment situation between 64QAM, 128QAM, and 256QAM compared with PET-CGDNN on RML2018.01a.

Communication signal reconstruction technology represents a critical area of research within communication countermeasures and signal processing. Considering traditional OFDM signal reconstruction methods’ intricacy and suboptimal reconstruction performance, a dual discriminator CGAN model incorporating LSTM and Transformer is proposed. When reconstructing OFDM signals using the traditional CNN network, it becomes challenging to extract intricate temporal information. Therefore, the BiLSTM network is incorporated into the first discriminator to capture timing details of the IQ (In-phase and Quadrature-phase) sequence and constellation map information of the AP (Amplitude and Phase) sequence. Subsequently, following the addition of fixed position coding, these data are fed into the core network constructed based on the Transformer Encoder for further learning. Simultaneously, to capture the correlation between the two IQ signals, the VIT (Vision in Transformer) concept is incorporated into the second discriminator. The IQ sequence is treated as a single-channel two-dimensional image and segmented into pixel blocks containing IQ sequence through Conv2d. Fixed position coding is added and sent to the Transformer core network for learning. The generator network transforms input noise data into a dimensional space aligned with the IQ signal and embedding vector dimensions. It appends identical position encoding information to the IQ sequence before sending it to the Transformer network. The experimental results demonstrate that, under commonly utilized OFDM modulation formats such as BPSK, QPSK, and 16QAM, the time series waveform, constellation diagram, and spectral diagram exhibit high-quality reconstruction. Our algorithm achieves improved signal quality while managing complexity compared to other reconstruction methods.