High-Capacity Complex Convolutional Neural Networks For I/Q Modulation Classification
This work addresses a domain-specific problem in signal processing for radio communication, offering incremental improvements over prior methods.
The paper tackled I/Q modulation classification by enabling high-capacity architectures with complex-valued convolutions, achieving a peak accuracy of 92.4% on the RadioML 2016.10a dataset and outperforming comparable models by over 10% in accuracy and speed.
I/Q modulation classification is a unique pattern recognition problem as the data for each class varies in quality, quantified by signal to noise ratio (SNR), and has structure in the complex-plane. Previous work shows treating these samples as complex-valued signals and computing complex-valued convolutions within deep learning frameworks significantly increases the performance over comparable shallow CNN architectures. In this work, we claim state of the art performance by enabling high-capacity architectures containing residual and/or dense connections to compute complex-valued convolutions, with peak classification accuracy of 92.4% on a benchmark classification problem, the RadioML 2016.10a dataset. We show statistically significant improvements in all networks with complex convolutions for I/Q modulation classification. Complexity and inference speed analyses show models with complex convolutions substantially outperform architectures with a comparable number of parameters and comparable speed by over 10% in each case.