Specific Emitter Identification Based on Complex Fourier Neural Network

Abstract

Specific emitter identification (SEI) is a well-established approach to providing precise target information for civilian and military applications. For most deep learning (DL) based SEI schemes, neural operators directly learn mappings from the raw baseband waveform or its transformed representation. Different from existing schemes, we propose a novel complex Fourier neural operator (CFNO) in this letter, which introduces a time and frequency domain attention mechanism. With the CFNO block, features are fully learned from different domain perspectives. We evaluate the proposed method based on the joint distortion model of the transmitter and compare it with several state-of-the-art SEI algorithms. Simulation results demonstrate its excellent performance, making the CFNO block a good candidate for extracting fingerprints.