Due to the influence of instrument and equipment work, outdoor environment and other factors, there
will be some random noise in the collected pipeline signal, which will make the original signal lose its
characteristics, leading to the failure to accurately identify the pipeline signal. Therefore, a feature extraction
method based on VMD (Variational Mode Decomposition) algorithm-entropy method is proposed. First VMD
algorithm based on working condition of gathering pipeline deals with the noise signal, then from energy, impact
properties, three angles, complexity of time series extracts signal characteristics under different working
conditions of three kinds of signal reconstruction after the signal are calculated separately, and the energy
entropy, kurtosis entropy and fuzzy entropy, and finally establishs characteristic vector input to the extreme
learning machine to identify the condition. The experimental results show that the method proposed can classify
and recognize pipeline working condition signals more accurately than other feature parameters, and the
recognition rate is up to 98. 33% , which proves the feasibility of this method to classify and recognize pipeline
leakage signals.