Title
Acoustic Classification of Surface and Underwater Vessels in the Ocean Using Supervised Machine Learning.
Abstract
Four data-driven methods-random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), feed-forward neural network (FNN), and convolutional neural network (CNN)-are applied to discriminate surface and underwater vessels in the ocean using low-frequency acoustic pressure data. Acoustic data are modeled considering a vertical line array by a Monte Carlo simulation using the underwater acoustic propagation model, KRAKEN, in the ocean environment of East Sea in Korea. The raw data are preprocessed and reorganized into the phone-space cross-spectral density matrix (pCSDM) and mode-space cross-spectral density matrix (mCSDM). Two additional matrices are generated using the absolute values of matrix elements in each CSDM. Each of these four matrices is used as input data for supervised machine learning. Binary classification is performed by using RF, SVM, FNN, and CNN, and the obtained results are compared. All machine-learning algorithms show an accuracy of >95% for three types of input data-the pCSDM, mCSDM, and mCSDM with the absolute matrix elements. The CNN is the best in terms of low percent error. In particular, the result using the complex pCSDM is encouraging because these data-driven methods inherently do not require environmental information. This work demonstrates the potential of machine learning to discriminate between surface and underwater vessels in the ocean.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19163492
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
target depth classification,machine learning,random forest,support vector machine,feed-forward neural network,convolutional neural network,cross-spectral density matrix,vertical line array
Feedforward neural network,Binary classification,Matrix (mathematics),Convolutional neural network,Support vector machine,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Artificial neural network,Machine learning,Approximation error,Underwater
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
16.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jongkwon Choi100.34
Youngmin Choo200.34
Keunhwa Lee300.68