Support vector data description for detecting the air-ground interface in ground penetrating radar signals

Joshua Wood; Joseph Wilson

doi:10.1117/12.884185

23 May 2011 Support vector data description for detecting the air-ground interface in ground penetrating radar signals

Joshua Wood, Joseph Wilson

Proceedings Volume 8017, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVI; 80171J (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884185
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In using GPR images for landmine detection it is often useful to identify the air-ground interface in the GRP signal for alignment purposes. A common simple technique for doing this is to assume that the highest return in an A-scan is from the reflection due to the ground and to use that as the location of the interface. However there are many situations, such as the presence of nose clutter or shallow sub-surface objects, that can cause the global maximum estimate to be incorrect. A Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) is a one-class classifier related to the SVM which encloses the class in a hyper-sphere as opposed to using a hyper-plane as a decision boundary. We apply SVDD to the problem of detection of the air-ground interface by treating each sample in an A-scan, with some number of leading and trailing samples, as a feature vector. Training is done using a set of feature vectors based on known interfaces and detection is done by creating feature vectors from each of the samples in an A-scan, applying the trained SVDD to them and selecting the one with the least distance from the center of the hyper-sphere. We compare this approach with the global maximum approach, examining both the performance on human truthed data and how each method affects false alarm and true positive rates when used as the alignment method in mine detection algorithms.

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Joshua Wood and Joseph Wilson "Support vector data description for detecting the air-ground interface in ground penetrating radar signals", Proc. SPIE 8017, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVI, 80171J (23 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884185

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