Research on Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition Based on a 3D Fusion Feature Joint Neural Network

Abstract

In the context of a complex marine environment, extracting and recognizing underwater acoustic target features using ship-radiated noise present significant challenges. This paper proposes a novel deep neural network model for underwater target recognition, which integrates 3D Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (3D-MFCC) and 3D Mel features derived from ship audio signals as inputs. The model employs a serial architecture that combines a convolutional neural network (CNN) with a long short-term memory (LSTM) network. It replaces the traditional CNN with a multi-scale depthwise separable convolutional network (MSDC) and incorporates a multi-scale channel attention mechanism (MSCA). The experimental results demonstrate that the average recognition rate of this method reaches 87.52% on the DeepShip dataset and 97.32% on the ShipsEar dataset, indicating a strong classification performance.

Keywords

• underwater acoustic target recognition
• 3D feature fusion
• multi-scale depthwise separable convolution
• attention mechanism