GPR target detection using a neural network classifier designed by a multi-objective genetic algorithm

doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2019.03.030

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GPR target detection using a neural network classifier designed by a multi-objective genetic algorithm

2019-06-01

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A.E. Ruano *

M.G. Ruano

Saad Dosse Bennani

DOI：10.1016/j.asoc.2019.03.030

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Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is an electromagnetic sensing technology employed for localization of underground utilities, pipes, and other types of objects. The radargrams typically obtained have a high dimensionality, containing a number of signatures with hyperbolic pattern shapes, and can be processed to retrieve information about the target's locations, depths and material type of underground soil. The classical Hough Transform approach used to reconstruct these hyperbola shapes is computationally expensive, given the large dimensionality of the radargrams. In literature, several approaches propose to first approximate the location of hyperbolas to small segments through a classification stage, before applying the Hough transform over these segments. However, the published classifiers designed for this task present a relatively complex architecture. Aiming at an improved target localization, we propose an alternative classification methodology. The goal is to classify windows of GPR radargrams into two classes (with or without target) using a neural network radial basis function (RBF), designed via a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA). To capture samples' fine details, high order statistic cumulant features (HOS) were used. Feature selection was performed by MOGA, with an optional prior reduction using a mutual information (MIFS) approach. The obtained results demonstrate improvement of the classification performance when compared with other models designed with the same data and are among the best results available in the literature, albeit the large reduction in classifier complexity. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords:

Hyperbola signatures

GPR

Classification

Multi-objective genetic algorithm

Mutual information

Feature selection

Neural networks

High order statistics

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