ADNet: A Neural Network for Accelerometer Signals Denoising

Accelerometer signals play a critical role in many fields, for example navigation and vehicle safety. However, uncontrollable factors such as defective equipment and harsh environments make the signals recorded by sensors contain a large amount of noise, which poses a great challenge. Most existing methods are based on traditional signal processing and often face problems of incomplete noise reduction or signal distortion after denoising. In this paper, we propose a data-driven denoising method for accelerometer signals (ADNet) based on the Wave_U_Net network architecture, incorporating Multi-Head Attention mechanism and Spatial Attention mechanism. This enhances the network’s feature extraction capability and accelerates its convergence speed. Meanwhile, the attention mechanism focuses the model’s attention on the clean signal’s feature information, improving the network’s fitting capability to the signal distribution. Therefore, ADNet can achieve more thorough denoising while reducing signal distortion after denoising. Finally, we conduct experiments on Walking speed dataset and field experiment dataset to verify the effectiveness of ADNet. The experimental results show that ADNet outperforms other baseline models in terms of Mean Square Error, Mean Absolute Error, Root Mean Square Error, and Signal-to-Noise Ratio.