Few-shot learning of signal modulation recognition based on attention relation network

Most of existing signal modulation recognition methods attempt to establish a machine learning mechanism by training with a large number of annotated samples, which is hardly applied to the real-world electronic reconnaissance scenario where only a few samples can be intercepted in advance. Few-Shot Learning (FSL) aims to learn from training classes with a lot of samples and transform the knowledge to support classes with only a few samples, thus realizing model generalization. In this paper, a novel FSL framework called Attention Relation Network (ARN) is proposed, which introduces channel and spatial attention respectively to learn a more effective feature representation of support samples. The experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve excellent performance for fine-grained signal modulation recognition even with only one support sample and is robust to low signal-to-noise-ratio conditions.