NEMESIS: Neural Embeddings for Modern Electronic-Warfare Spoofing Identification System Conference

Abeywardana, K, Ranasinghe, S, Saumyajith, P et al. (2026). NEMESIS: Neural Embeddings for Modern Electronic-Warfare Spoofing Identification System .

cited authors

  • Abeywardana, K; Ranasinghe, S; Saumyajith, P; Dassanayake, T; Edussooriya, CUS; Miriya Thanthrige, USKP; Madanayake, A

abstract

  • Civilian GNSS receivers are vulnerable to spoofing due to open signal structures, while adaptive electronic-warfare platforms increasingly synthesize high-fidelity counterfeit signals. Existing detection methods depend on handcrafted features or supervised learning, limiting robustness under distribution shifts and novel attacks. This paper introduces NEMESIS, a self-supervised framework based on joint embedding predictive architectures (JEPA) in the wavelet time-frequency domain, which leverages unlabeled RF corpora via masked time-frequency prediction to learn spoofing-relevant embeddings directly from raw RF signals without labels or contrastive augmentation. Experiments demonstrate that wavelet-domain JEPA substantially outperforms time- and frequency-domain variants and achieves competitive accuracy relative to contrastive learning while significantly reducing labeling requirements.

publication date

  • January 1, 2026