Waveforms classification based on convolutional neural networks

Abstract

A novel waveforms classification method based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, convolution and pooling operations are cross used for generating deep features, and then fully connected to the output layer for classification. Different from other traditional approaches which need human-designed features, CNN can discover and extract the suitable internal structure of the input waveform to obtain deep features for classification automatically. So that the generalization ability of this method is significantly improved comparing to other methods. Experimental results show that CNN can obtain state of the art performance for waveforms classification in terms of classification accuracy and noise tolerance.