Dilated CNNs for Periodic Signal Processing: A Low-Complexity Approach

Eli Gildish , Michael Grebshtein , Igor Makienko

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keywords dilated CNNperiodic signal denoisingresamplinglow-complexityresource-constrainedwaveform estimationautoregressive methods

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A single dilated CNN trained on one observation plus a resampling step matches the denoising accuracy of per-signal networks and classical AR methods for periodic signals.

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The paper presents R-DCNN as a low-complexity alternative for denoising periodic signals that appear in speech, medical, radio and sonar applications. It trains a dilated convolutional network once on a single observation, then applies a lightweight resampling step that stretches or compresses the time axis of new signals so their fundamental periods align with the trained network. This reuse of weights avoids the cost of retraining separate models for each frequency while keeping overall computation far below that of standard deep networks or per-observation classical estimators. The claim is that the resulting accuracy remains comparable to autoregressive techniques and to individually trained DCNNs, making the method practical under tight power and memory limits.

Core claim

R-DCNN combines a dilated CNN with a resampling module that normalizes the time scale of signals having different fundamental frequencies; the network is trained on only one observation and then applied to additional signals through the same lightweight resampling, delivering denoising and waveform estimation performance on par with AR-based methods and with conventional DCNNs trained separately for each observation.

What carries the argument

R-DCNN, a dilated convolutional network whose weights are shared across signals after a resampling step aligns their fundamental periods to a common time scale.

Load-bearing premise

Resampling signals that have different fundamental frequencies to a single common scale does not introduce distortions that would materially reduce the shared network's denoising quality.

What would settle it

Compare the output SNR or mean-squared waveform error on a collection of periodic signals whose frequencies differ by at least a factor of two; if the resampled single-network results fall more than a few decibels below those of frequency-specific models or AR estimators, the central claim does not hold.

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Denoising of periodic signals and accurate waveform estimation are core tasks across many signal processing domains, including speech, music, medical diagnostics, radio, and sonar. Although deep learning methods have recently shown performance improvements over classical approaches, they require substantial computational resources and are usually trained separately for each signal observation. This study proposes a computationally efficient method based on DCNN and Re-sampling, termed R-DCNN, designed for operation under strict power and resource constraints. The approach targets signals with varying fundamental frequencies and requires only a single observation for training. It generalizes to additional signals via a lightweight resampling step that aligns time scales in signals with different frequencies to re-use the same network weights. Despite its low computational complexity, R-DCNN achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art classical methods, such as autoregressive (AR)-based techniques, as well as conventional DCNNs trained individually for each observation. This combination of efficiency and performance makes the proposed method particularly well suited for deployment in resource-constrained environments without sacrificing denoising or estimation accuracy.

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The manuscript describes a practical method (R-DCNN) that trains a dilated CNN on one observation and re-uses the weights on other signals after a resampling alignment step. No equations, first-principles derivations, fitted parameters, or predictions are presented that could reduce to their own inputs. Claims of comparable performance are framed as empirical outcomes to be verified by experiment, not as consequences of internal definitions or self-citations. The resampling operator is introduced as an engineering choice rather than derived from prior results by the same authors. Consequently the derivation chain is empty and no circularity is present.

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