• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.22-28
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• 1996

수동 소나 시스템에서 표적을 탐지, 식별하는데 가장 중요한 인자는 표적에서 발생되는 토날 신호 성분이다. 수중의 주변잡음과 표적소음이 복합된 환경하에서 표적의 토날 신호성분을 정확히 추출하는데는 신호 탐지 준위 설정이나 주변 잡음의 변화에 의해 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 ASM 신경망을 이용하여 신호 탐지 준위 설정이나 주변잡음의 변화에 강인한 음향 표적의 토날 신호 탐지 방식을 제안한다. 모의 시뮬레이션 및 실제 표적 신호에 적용하여 우수한 토날 신호 탐지 성능을 보인다.

• 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.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.34 no.6
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• pp.487-492
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• 2015

A short-range underwater target detection and identification techniques using mid- and high-frequency bands have been highly developed. However, nowadays the long-range detection using the low-frequency band is requested and one of the most challengeable issues. The waveform inversion technique is widely used and the hottest technology in both academia and industry of the seismic exploration. It is based on the numerical analysis tool, and could construct more than a few kilometers of the subsurface structures and model-parameters such as P-wave velocity using a low-frequency band. By applying this technique to the underwater acoustic circumstance, firstly application of underwater target detection is verified. Furthermore, subsurface structures and it's parameters of the war-field are well reconstructed. We can confirm that this technique greatly reduces the false-alarm rate for the underwater targets because it could accurately reproduce both the shape and the model-parameters at the same time.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.149-153
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• 2008

General underwater target detection methods adopt short-time FFT for estimate target doppler. This paper proposes the efficient target detection method, instead of conventional FFT, using approximate FFT for distributed sensor network target detection, which requires lighter computations. In the proposed method, we decrease computational rate of FFT by the quantization of received signal. For validation of the proposed method, experiment result which is applied to FFT based active sonar detector and real oceanic data is presented.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.203-208
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• 2010

In this paper, we convert underwater acoustic signal made by sonar system into digital image. We propose the algorithm that detects target candidate and emphasizes information of target introducing image processing technique for the digital image. The process detecting underwater target estimates background noise in underwater acoustic signal changing irregularly, recomposes it. and eliminates background from original image. Therefore, it generates initial target group. Also, it generates weighted map through proceeding doppler information, ensures information for target candidate through filtering using weighted map for image eliminated background noise, and decides the target candidate area in the single frame. In this paper, we verified that proposed algorithm almost had eliminated the noise generated irregularly in underwater acoustic signal made by simulation, targets had been displayed more surely in the image of underwater acoustic signal through filtering and process of target detection.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.467-470
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• 2004

잠수함 정숙화 추세와 복잡한 해양 환경으로 대잠수함전에서 미약한 표적신호를 지속적으로 탐지하기 매우 어려워지고 있어 소나 운용자가 장시간 지속적으로 전방위 표적 탐색하는 부담이 매우 크므로 표적 자동탐지 추적 기능이 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 장거리 예인 수동소나에 적합한 표적의 자동 탐지 및 추적기법을 제안하고 시뮬레이션과 실제 해상 환경에서 수중 표적신호로 성능을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.539-542
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• 2009

해군에서는 소나를 이용하여 수중 표적을 효과적으로 탐색하기 위한 소나운용전술을 개발하기 위해 노력하고 있다. 효율적인 소나운용전술 개발을 위해서는 먼저 다양한 운영전술에 대한 효과도를 분석할 수 있는 시뮬레이션 시스템이 필요하다. 시뮬레이션 시스템은 해양환경 정보, 자함 정보, 소나 정보, 그리고 수중표적의 정보를 매개변수로 입력받아 운용전술에 대한 시뮬레이션을 수행하며, 시뮬레이션의 진행에 따른 다양한 정보를 제공할 수 있어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 환경에서 수중표적에 대한 함정의 최적 탐색 전략을 평가할 수 있는 탐색효과도 분석용 시뮬레이션 시스템을 설계 개발하였다. 시뮬레이션 시스템은 다양한 형태의 해양상태를 반영할 수 있도록 소나방정식 및 탐지확률곡선을 이용하여 개발되었으며, 표적의 실제적인 행동패턴을 고려하여 여러 가지 형태의 기동 패턴을 시스템에 묘사하였다. 개발된 시스템은 앞으로 수중표적에 대한 효율적인 소나운용전술을 개발하고 발전시키는데 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.225-233
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• 2024

Active sonar transmits sound waves to detect covertly maneuvering underwater objects and detects the signals reflected back from the target. However, in addition to the target's echo, the active sonar's received signal is mixed with seafloor, sea surface reverberation, biological noise, and other noise, making target recognition difficult. Conventional techniques for detecting signals above a threshold not only cause false detections or miss targets depending on the set threshold, but also have the problem of having to set an appropriate threshold for various underwater environments. To overcome this, research has been conducted on automatic calculation of threshold values through techniques such as Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) and application of advanced tracking filters and association techniques, but there are limitations in environments where a significant number of detections occur. As deep learning technology has recently developed, efforts have been made to apply it in the field of underwater target detection, but it is very difficult to acquire active sonar data for discriminator learning, so not only is the data rare, but there are only a very small number of targets and a relatively large number of non-targets. There are difficulties due to the imbalance of data. In this paper, the image of the energy distribution of the detection signal is used, and a classifier is learned in a way that takes into account the imbalance of the data to distinguish between targets and non-targets and added to the existing technique. Through the proposed technique, target misclassification was minimized and non-targets were eliminated, making target recognition easier for active sonar operators. And the effectiveness of the proposed technique was verified through sea experiment data obtained in the East Sea.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.2137-2142
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• 2012

Many studies in detection and classification of the targets in the underwater environments have been conducted for military purposes, as well as for non-military purpose. Due to the complicated characteristics of underwater acoustic signal reflecting multipath environments and spatio-temporal varying characteristics, active sonar target classification technique has been considered as a difficult technique. And it has a difficult in collecting actual underwater data. In this paper, we implemented the simulator to synthesize the active target signal, to extract feature and to classify the target in the underwater environment. In target signal synthesis, highlight and three-dimensional model are used and multi-aspect based hidden markov model is used for target classification.