GAO Yong, LUO Tingyi. Single-channel blind source separation algorithm based on a dual-encoder β-VAE and attention mechanisms[J/OL]. Journal on Communications, 2026.
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GAO Yong, LUO Tingyi. Single-channel blind source separation algorithm based on a dual-encoder β-VAE and attention mechanisms[J/OL]. Journal on Communications, 2026. DOI: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.TXXB260086.
Single-channel blind source separation algorithm based on a dual-encoder β-VAE and attention mechanisms
and high computational complexity in traditional single-channel blind source separation methods
a single-channel blind separation algorithm based on a dual-encoder
β
-VAE and attention mechanisms
was proposed. A dual-encoder parallel structure was employed to extract signal features
dilated convolutions were introduced to enlarge the receptive field
and a Conformer module was utilized to fuse local and global features. In the decoder
an ECA module was incorporated to improve reconstruction quality
and multi-loss joint optimization was adopted for model training. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively separate dual QPSK
dual 16QAM
and BPSK+QPSK mixed signals in simulated scenarios
as well as practical dual BPSK mixed signals. In the separation of dual QPSK signals over stationary channel
the proposed algorithm achieves about 3 dB
2.5 dB and 2 dB performance gains compared with DSNet
DDAEC and D3Net algorithms at a BER of 10⁻³
respectively. While the channel is non-stationary
the proposed algorithm achieves about 4dB
1 dB and 0.5 dB performance gains compared with DSNet
DDAEC and D3Net algorithms at a BER of 5×10⁻
3
respectively. In the separation of practical dual BPSK signals
the proposed algorithm achieves about 4 dB
1 dB
0.5 dB and 2.5 dB performance gains compared with PSP
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