Low probability of interception radar overlapping signal modulation recognition based on an improved you-only-look-once version 8 network

Low probability of interception (LPI) radar is widely used in modern electronic warfare. With the increased radiation sources, multiple signals will arrive simultaneously. The traditional feature extraction method has too many features, which brings great trouble to the subsequent data processing. Most modulation recognition methods based on deep learning only consider the single signal after preprocessing, and the generalization ability is weak. This paper proposes a deep learning solution based on an improved you only look once version 8 (YOLOv8) network with a global attention mechanism (GAM), achieving recognition accuracy over 98% in a -10 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scenario to address the above problems. We improved the performance of the original network, which can be used in electronic countermeasures.