Specific Emitter Identification Based on Background Information Fusion for Low SNR Environments

Specific emitter identification (SEI), known as radio frequency fingerprint (RFF) identification, is one of the key techniques to provide effective protection for the low-altitude security. However, most existing SEI methods cannot achieve satisfactory identification performance in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments. By fusing background information of the environment, this paper presents a new deep learning-based SEI method that can accurately identify emitters in the environments with severe noises. We first construct a dual convolutional neural network (DCNN) and a U-shaped Convolutional Network (UNet) to extract the RFFs and background information features, respectively. Then, a background-fingerprint attention fusion network (BFAFN) is designed to fuse the background information with RFF features. Using this network, we can obtain detailed emitters information through the fused signals, improving the identification accuracy. Experimental results show that our proposed SEI method outperforms other methods in performance on both open-source and collected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) datasets, with an improvement in identification accuracy of 2% to 5%.