Exploiting spectral content for image segmentation in GPR data

Patrick K. Wang; Kenneth D. Morton Jr.; Leslie M. Collins; Peter A. Torrione

doi:10.1117/12.884874

23 May 2011 Exploiting spectral content for image segmentation in GPR data

Patrick K. Wang, Kenneth D. Morton Jr., Leslie M. Collins, Peter A. Torrione

Proceedings Volume 8017, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVI; 80171T (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884874
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) sensors provide an effective means for detecting changes in the sub-surface electrical properties of soils, such as changes indicative of landmines or other buried threats. However, most GPR-based pre-screening algorithms only localize target responses along the surface of the earth, and do not provide information regarding an object's position in depth. As a result, feature extraction algorithms are forced to process data from entire cubes of data around pre-screener alarms, which can reduce feature fidelity and hamper performance. In this work, spectral analysis is investigated as a method for locating subsurface anomalies in GPR data. In particular, a 2-D spatial/frequency decomposition is applied to pre-screener flagged GPR B-scans. Analysis of these spatial/frequency regions suggests that aspects (e.g. moments, maxima, mode) of the frequency distribution of GPR energy can be indicative of the presence of target responses. After translating a GPR image to a function of the spatial/frequency distributions at each pixel, several image segmentation approaches can be applied to perform segmentation in this new transformed feature space. To illustrate the efficacy of the approach, a performance comparison between feature processing with and without the image segmentation algorithm is provided.

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Patrick K. Wang, Kenneth D. Morton Jr., Leslie M. Collins, and Peter A. Torrione "Exploiting spectral content for image segmentation in GPR data", Proc. SPIE 8017, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XVI, 80171T (23 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884874

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