• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.104-109
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• 1996

In passive sonar system, frequency lines generated by underwater target are very important for detection, tracking and classification. In this paper, the extraction method of unstable frequency line from the time samples of the radiated noise of underwater target is studied. As unstable frequency line is time varying, an extended Kalman filter algorithm which is desirable for nonlinear system is applied to extract unstable frequency line. The proposed method shows good extraction of unstable frequency line by application of simulated signal and real target.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.370-376
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• 2023

In the underwater image, it is not clear to distinguish the shape of the target due to underwater noise and low resolution. In addition, as an input of deep learning, underwater images require pre-processing and segmentation must be preceded. Even after pre-processing, the target is not clear, and the performance of detection and identification by deep learning may not be high. Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish and clarify the target. In this study, the importance of target shadows is confirmed in underwater images, object detection and target area acquisition by shadows, and data containing only the shape of targets and shadows without underwater background are generated. We present the process of converting the shadow image into a 3-mode image in which the target is white, the shadow is black, and the background is gray. Through this, it is possible to provide an image that is clearly pre-processed and easily discriminated as an input of deep learning. In addition, if the image processing code using Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV)Library was used for processing, the processing speed was also suitable for real-time processing.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.120-127
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• 2019

Passive source depth discrimination has been studied for decades since the source depth can be used for discriminating whether the target is near the surface or submerged. In this thesis, an algorithm for source depth discrimination is proposed based on CIR (Channel Impulse Response) from target-radiated noise (or signal). In order to extract CIR without a known source signal, Ray-based blind deconvolution is used. Subsequently, intersections of CIR pattern, which is characterized by ray arrival time difference, is utilized for discriminating source depth. The proposed algorithm is demonstrated through numerical simulation in ocean waveguide, and verified via the experimental data.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 2024

The importance of active sonar systems is emerging due to the quietness of underwater targets and the increase in ambient noise due to the increase in maritime traffic. However, the low signal-to-noise ratio of the echo signal due to multipath propagation of the signal, various clutter, ambient noise and reverberation makes it difficult to identify underwater targets using active sonar. Attempts have been made to apply data-based methods such as machine learning or deep learning to improve the performance of underwater target recognition systems, but it is difficult to collect enough data for training due to the nature of sonar datasets. Methods based on mathematical modeling have been mainly used to compensate for insufficient active sonar data. However, methodologies based on mathematical modeling have limitations in accurately simulating complex underwater phenomena. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a sonar signal synthesis method based on a deep neural network. In order to apply the neural network model to the field of sonar signal synthesis, the proposed method appropriately corrects the attention-based encoder and decoder to the sonar signal, which is the main module of the Tacotron model mainly used in the field of speech synthesis. It is possible to synthesize a signal more similar to the actual signal by training the proposed model using the dataset collected by arranging a simulated target in an actual marine environment. In order to verify the performance of the proposed method, Perceptual evaluation of audio quality test was conducted and within score difference -2.3 was shown compared to actual signal in a total of four different environments. These results prove that the active sonar signal generated by the proposed method approximates the actual signal.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.293-299
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• 2017

Small unmanned platforms maneuvering underwater are the key naval future forces, utilized as the asymmetric power in war. As a method of detecting and identifying such platforms, we introduce a property estimation technique based on an iterative numerical analysis. The property estimation technique can estimate not only the position of a target but also its physical properties. Moreover, it will have a potential in detecting and classifying still target or multiple targets. In this study, we have conducted the property estimation of an small underwater target using the data acquired from the lake experiment. As a result, it shows that the properties of a small platform may be roughly estimated from the in site data even using one channel.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.118-124
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• 1996

Signal frequency lines generated from the acoustic targets are of particular importance for target detection and classification in passive sonar systems. The underwater noise consists of a mixture of ambient noise and radiated noise of targets. Detction of exact signal frequency lines depends on signal detection threshold and variation of ambient noise. In this paper, a detection method of signal frequency lines for acoustic targets using autoassociative memory (ASM) neural network, which is not sensitive to variation of signal detection threshold and ambient noise, is proposed. It is confirmed by simulation and application of real acoustic targets that the proposed method shows good performance for detection of signal frequency lines.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1991.06a
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• pp.117-121
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• 1991

본 논문은 견인선(tow-ship)에서 발생하는 자체 잡음을 제거하여 수중 신호처리 시스템에서 표적 탐지(target detection)와 표적 식별(target identification) 등의 성능 향상을 위하여 표적 방향으로 형성된 빔의 출력을 원시 입력신호(primary input)로 사용하고 견인선 방향으로 형성된 빔의 출력을 참고 입력신호(reference input)로 사용한 적응 잡음 제거기(adaptive noise canceller)에 대해 연구하였다. 잡음 제거를 위해 사용되는 계수들은 LMS(Least Mean Square) 알고리듬을 이용하여 조정하였다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 TDL(Tapped-Delay Line) 구조와 LAT(LATtice) 구조를 갖는 적응 잡음 제거기 성능을 여러 가지 환경에서 비교, 관찰하였다. 두 알고리듬을 사용할 경우, 자체 잡음이 어떠한 형태로 나타나더라도 제거시킬 수 있음을 보여 주었으나 고유값 분포율(eigenvalue spread ratio)이 큰 경우에는 LMS-LAT가 LMS-TDL보다 수렴 속도뿐만 아니라 성능면에서도 우수함을 보였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.1909-1916
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• 2017

Recently, deep learning algorithms have good performance in various fields, but they are not actively applied to sonar systems. In this study, we carried out experiments to classify active sonar returns into a metal object such as a mine and a rock using a convolutional neural network which is one of the deep learning algorithms. Data augmentation is applied on this paper to avoid overfitting and increase performance. And we analyzed performance variation depending on hyperparameter value and change of the number of training data through data augmentation. The experiments are performed with two training data; an aspect-angle independent and an aspect-angle dependent. As a result, the performances are 88.9% and 94.9% in aspect-angle independent and dependent, respectively. These are up to 4.5% point higher than the performance obtained by applying artificial neural network and support vector machine algorithm in the previous study.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.87-94
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• 2007

In active sonar system, aspect angle and length of a target can be estimated by calculating the cross-correlation between left and right split-beams of a LFM(Linear Frequency Modulated) signal. However, high-resolution performances in bearing and range are required to estimate the information of a remote target. Because a certain higher sampling frequency than the Nyquist sampling frequency is required in this performance, an over-sampling process through interpolation method should be required. However, real-time implementation of split-beam processing with over-sampled split-beam outputs on a COTS(commercial off-the-shelf) DSP platform limits its performance because of given throughput and memory capacity. This paper proposes a cumulative processing algorithm for split-beam processing to solve the problems. The performance of the proposed method was verified through some simulation tests. Also, the proposed method was implemented as a real-time system using an ADSP-TS101.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.78-83
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• 2000

Passive sonar system is designed to classify the underwater targets by analyzing and comparing the various acoustic characteristics such as signal strength, bandwidth, number of tonals and relationship of tonals from the extracted tonals and frequency lines. First of all the precise detection and extraction of signal frequency lines is of particular importance for enhancing the reliability of target classification. But, the narrowband frequency lines which are the line formed in spectrogram by a tonal of constant frequency in each frame can be detected weakly or discontinuously because of the variation of signal strength and transmission loss in the sea. Also, it is very difficult to detect and extract precisely the signal frequency lines by the complexity of impulsive ambient noise and signal components. In this paper, the automatic detection and extraction method that can detect and extract the signal components of frequency tines precisely are proposed. The proposed method can be applied under the bad conditions with weak signal strength and high ambient noise. It is confirmed by the simulation using real underwater target data.