One-shot Generative Distribution Matching for Augmented RF-based UAV Identification

TL;DR

This paper introduces a one-shot generative approach to augment RF signals for UAV identification, significantly improving accuracy in low-data environments and outperforming traditional deep generative models.

Contribution

It presents a novel one-shot generative method for RF signal augmentation, with theoretical guarantees and superior performance over GANs and VAEs in UAV identification.

Findings

Outperforms GANs and VAEs in low-data regimes

Provides theoretical guarantees for one-shot generative models

Enhances UAV identification accuracy in limited RF environments

Abstract

This work addresses the challenge of identifying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) using radiofrequency (RF) fingerprinting in limited RF environments. The complexity and variability of RF signals, influenced by environmental interference and hardware imperfections, often render traditional RF-based identification methods ineffective. To address these complications, the study introduces the rigorous use of one-shot generative methods for augmenting transformed RF signals, offering a significant improvement in UAV identification. This approach shows promise in low-data regimes, outperforming deep generative methods like conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational auto-encoders (VAEs). The paper provides a theoretical guarantee for the effectiveness of one-shot generative models in augmenting limited data, setting a precedent for their application in limited RF environments. This research contributes to learning techniques in low-data regime scenarios, which may include atypical complex sequences beyond images and videos. The code and links to datasets used in this study are available at https://github.com/amir-kazemi/uav-rf-id.