DenoMAE: A Multimodal Autoencoder for Denoising Modulation Signals
This provides a data-efficient solution for denoising and classifying modulation signals in noise-intensive environments, which is incremental as it extends masked autoencoders with multimodal inputs.
The paper tackled denoising modulation signals by proposing DenoMAE, a multimodal autoencoder that incorporates noise as an explicit modality, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy in automatic modulation classification with 10% less unlabeled pretraining data and 3% less labeled fine-tuning data compared to existing methods.
We propose Denoising Masked Autoencoder (Deno-MAE), a novel multimodal autoencoder framework for denoising modulation signals during pretraining. DenoMAE extends the concept of masked autoencoders by incorporating multiple input modalities, including noise as an explicit modality, to enhance cross-modal learning and improve denoising performance. The network is pre-trained using unlabeled noisy modulation signals and constellation diagrams, effectively learning to reconstruct their equivalent noiseless signals and diagrams. Deno-MAE achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in automatic modulation classification tasks with significantly fewer training samples, demonstrating a 10% reduction in unlabeled pretraining data and a 3% reduction in labeled fine-tuning data compared to existing approaches. Moreover, our model exhibits robust performance across varying signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and supports extrapolation on unseen lower SNRs. The results indicate that DenoMAE is an efficient, flexible, and data-efficient solution for denoising and classifying modulation signals in challenging noise-intensive environments.