The invention relates to the field of
underwater sound
signal processing, in particular to an
underwater DOA (
direction of arrival)
estimation method based on graph nerves and a
convolutional neural network, which comprises the following steps: 1, establishing a
linear array, and enabling narrow-band signals to simultaneously reach an
underwater sound array; 2, performing
signal preprocessing to obtain a
signal covariance matrix, and performing normalization
processing; 3, extracting correlation between array elements and spatial features of array signals, and performing data supplementation on sparse
linear array information; 4, forming a double-
branch structure, enhancing the
information aggregation capability, and extracting features from a space path and a
time domain path; and 5, constructing an adjacent matrix, filling node features of damaged array elements, adopting a double-
branch structure, extracting spatial features and
time domain features, carrying out feature integration, and outputting a DOA
estimation result. The
spatial correlation between array elements is extracted and the array sparsity problem is processed by using the graph neural network, and the
time domain features of the signals are extracted in combination with the
convolutional neural network, so that more accurate and more robust DOA
estimation can be realized under the conditions of low signal-to-
noise ratio and array sparsity.