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To address these issues, an Efficient Channel Attention Reparameterized Network (ECA-RepNet) based on recurrence plot and Efficient Channel Attention mechanism is proposed. The one-dimensional vibration signal is mapped to the two-dimensional image space through a recurrence plot (RP), which retains the dynamic characteristics of the time series while capturing the complex patterns in the signal. Multi-scale feature extraction and lightweight design are achieved through the reparameterized large kernel block (RepLK Block) and the depthwise separable convolution (DSConv) module. The ECA module is introduced to embed multiple convolutional layers. Through global average pooling, one-dimensional convolution, and dynamic weight allocation, the modeling ability of inter-channel dependencies is enhanced, the model robustness is improved, and the computational overhead is reduced. 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