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5 May 2011 Fusion and Gaussian mixture based classifiers for SONAR data
Vikas Kotari, KC Chang
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Abstract
Underwater mines are inexpensive and highly effective weapons. They are difficult to detect and classify. Hence detection and classification of underwater mines is essential for the safety of naval vessels. This necessitates a formulation of highly efficient classifiers and detection techniques. Current techniques primarily focus on signals from one source. Data fusion is known to increase the accuracy of detection and classification. In this paper, we formulated a fusion-based classifier and a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) based classifier for classification of underwater mines. The emphasis has been on sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) signals due to their extensive use in current naval operations. The classifiers have been tested on real SONAR data obtained from University of California Irvine (UCI) repository. The performance of both GMM based classifier and fusion based classifier clearly demonstrate their superior classification accuracy over conventional single source cases and validate our approach.
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Vikas Kotari and KC Chang "Fusion and Gaussian mixture based classifiers for SONAR data", Proc. SPIE 8050, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XX, 80500U (5 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883697
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KEYWORDS
Data fusion

Sensors

Signal detection

Data communications

Mining

Land mines

Naval mines

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