Title
A back-propagation neural network landmine detector using the delta-technique and S-statistic
Abbreviated Journal Title
Neural Process. Lett.
Keywords
back-propagation neural networks; false alarm filtering; mine detection; S-statistic; delta-technique; MINE DETECTION; Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; Neurosciences
Abstract
Landmines are a major problem facing the world today; there are millions of these deadly weapons still buried in various countries around the world. Humanitarian organizations dedicate an immeasurable amount of time, effort, and money to find and remove as many of these mines as possible. Unfortunately, landmines can be made out of common materials which make the correct detection of them very difficult. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of combining certain statistical techniques with a neural network to improve detection. The detection method must not only detect the majority of landmines in the ground, it must also filter out as many of the false alarms as possible. This is the true challenge to developing landmine detection algorithms. Our approach combines a Back-Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) with statistical techniques and compares the performance of mine detection against the performance of the energy detector and the delta-technique. Our results show that the combination of the delta-technique and the S-statistics with a neural network improves the performance.
Journal Title
Neural Processing Letters
Volume
23
Issue/Number
1
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
47
Last Page
54
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1370-4621
Recommended Citation
"A back-propagation neural network landmine detector using the delta-technique and S-statistic" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 6306.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/6306
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