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Furthermore, it is impossible to catalog all types of anomalies, therefore, the direct application of supervised learning is deficient. To overcome these problems, an unsupervised deep learning method that only learns the normal data features from ordinary events is proposed. First, a convolutional autoencoder is used to extract DAS signal features. A clustering algorithm then locates the feature center of the normal data, and the distance to the new signal is used to determine whether it is an anomaly. The efficacy of the proposed method was evaluated in a real high-speed rail intrusion scenario, and considered all behaviors that may threaten the normal operation of high-speed trains as abnormal. The results show that the threat detection rate of this method reaches 91.5%, which is 5.9% higher than that of the state-of-the-art supervised network and, at 7.2%, the false alarm rate is 0.8% lower than the supervised network. 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