Biologically Inspired Methods and Systems for Automatically Determining the Modulation Types of Radio Signals using Stacked De-Noising Autoencoders

Class types of input signals having unknown class types are automatically classified using a neural network. The neural network learns features associated with a plurality of different observed signals having respective different known class types. The neural network then recognizes features of the input signals having unknown class types that at least partially match at least some of the features associated with the plurality of different observed signals having respective different known class types. The neural network determines probabilities that each of the input signals has each of the known class types based on strengths of the matches between the recognized features of the input signals and the features associated with plurality of different observed signals. The neural network classifies each of the input signals as having one of the respective different known class types based on a highest determined probability.