摘要: We developed a fast and modular deep learning algorithm to search for
lookalike signals of interest in radio spectrogram data. First, we trained an
autoencoder on filtered data returned by an energy detection algorithm. We then
adapted a positional embedding layer from classical Transformer architecture to
a frequency-based embedding. Next we used the encoder component of the
autoencoder to extract features from small (~ 715,Hz with a resolution of
2.79Hz per frequency bin) windows in the radio spectrogram. We used our
algorithm to conduct a search for a given query (encoded signal of interest) on
a set of signals (encoded features of searched items) to produce the top
candidates with similar features. We successfully demonstrate that the
algorithm retrieves signals with similar appearance, given only the original
radio spectrogram data.