Piezoelectrics & Acoustooptics, Volume. 47, Issue 3, 597(2025)

UAV Acoustic Detection and Recognition Based on a Time-Frequency Attention and Soft Thresholding CNN

WU Canbo1 and HAN Gangtao2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Information Engineering Department,Zhengzhou Industrial Safety Vocational College,Zhengzhou 451192,China
  • 2School of Electrical and Information Engineering,Zhengzhou University,Zhengzhou 450001,China
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    Received: Nov. 26, 2024

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    Published Online: Jul. 11, 2025

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    DOI:10.11977/j.issn.1004-2474.2025.03.030

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