KEYWORDS: Mining, Land mines, Electromagnetic coupling, General packet radio service, Algorithm development, Sensors, Feature extraction, Detection and tracking algorithms, Signal processing, Scattering
The Region Processing Algorithm (RPA) has been developed by the Office of the Army Humanitarian Demining Research and Development (HD R&D) Program as part of improvements for the AN/PSS-14. The effort was a collaboration between the HD R&D Program, L-3 Communication CyTerra Corporation, University of Florida, Duke University and University of Missouri. RPA has been integrated into and implemented in a real-time AN/PSS-14. The subject unit was used to collect data and tested for its performance at three Army test sites within the United States of America. This paper describes the status of the technology and its recent test results.
CyTerra's dual sensor HSTAMIDS system has demonstrated promising landmine detection capabilities in extensive government-run field tests. Further optimization of the successful PentAD algorithm is desirable to maintain the high probability of detection (Pd) while lowering the false alarm rate (FAR). PentAD contains several input parameters, making such optimization using standard Monte-Carlo techniques too computationally intensive. Genetic algorithm techniques, which formerly provided substantial improvement in the detection performance of the metal detector sensor algorithm alone, have been applied to further optimize the numerical values of the dual-sensor algorithm parameters in more practical time frames. Genetic algorithm techniques have also been applied to choose among several sub-models and fusion techniques to potentially train the HSTAMIDS system in new ways. An analysis of genetic algorithm results has indicated that ground type may have a significant impact on the optimal parameter set. In this presentation we discuss the performance of the resulting ground-type based genetic algorithm as applied to field data.
KEYWORDS: Principal component analysis, Land mines, Detection and tracking algorithms, Radar, Ground penetrating radar, General packet radio service, Metals, Data corrections, Calibration, Standoff detection
The Handheld Standoff Mine Detection System (HSTAMIDS system) has achieved outstanding performance in government-run field tests due to its use of anomaly detection using principal component analysis (PCA) on the return of ground penetrating radar (GPR) coupled with metal detection. Indications of nonlinearities and asymmetries in Humanitarian Demining (HD) data point to modifications to the current PCA algorithm that might prove beneficial. Asymmetries in the distribution of PCA projections of field data have been quantified in Humanitarian Demining (HD) data. The data suggest a logarithmic correction to the data. Such a correction has been applied and has improved the FAR on this data set. The increase in performance is comparable to the increase shown using the simpler asymmetric rescaling method.
CyTerra's dual sensor HSTAMIDS system has demonstrated exceptional landmine detection capabilities in extensive government-run field tests. Further optimization of the highly successful PentAD-class algorithms for Humanitarian Demining (HD) use (to enhance detection (Pd) and to lower the false alarm rate (FAR)) may be possible. PentAD contains several input parameters, making such optimization computationally intensive. Genetic algorithm techniques, which formerly provided substantial improvement in the detection performance of the metal detector sensor algorithm alone, have been applied to optimize the numerical values of the dual-sensor
algorithm parameters. Genetic algorithm techniques have also been applied to choose among several sub-models and fusion techniques to potentially train the HSTAMIDS HD system in new ways. In this presentation we discuss the performance of the resulting algorithm as applied to field data.
KEYWORDS: Principal component analysis, Land mines, Detection and tracking algorithms, Radar, Ground penetrating radar, General packet radio service, Metals, Calibration, Standoff detection, Automatic target recognition
Outstanding landmine detection has been achieved by the Handheld Standoff Mine Detection System (HSTAMIDS system) in government-run field tests. The use of anomaly detection using principal component analysis (PCA) on the return of ground penetrating radar (GPR) coupled with metal detection is the key to the success of the HSTAMIDS-like system algorithms. Indications of nonlinearities and asymmetries in Humanitarian Demining (HD) data point to modifications to the current PCA algorithm that might prove beneficial. Asymmetries in the distribution of PCA projections of field data have been quantified in Humanitarian Demining (HD) data. An initial correction for the observed asymmetries has improved the False Alarm Rate (FAR) on this data.
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