A large-scale systematic evaluation of algorithms using ground-penetrating radar for landmine detection and discrimination

JN Wilson, P Gader, WH Lee, H Frigui… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A variety of algorithms for the detection of landmines and discrimination between landmines
and clutter objects have been presented. We discuss four quite different approaches in …

An investigation of using the spectral characteristics from ground penetrating radar for landmine/clutter discrimination

KC Ho, L Carin, PD Gader… - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground penetrating radar (GPR)-based discrimination of landmines from clutter is known to
be challenging due to the wide variability of possible clutter (eg, rocks, roots, and general …

Application of feature extraction methods for landmine detection using the Wichmann/Niitek ground-penetrating radar

Q Zhu, LM Collins - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has been proposed as an alternative to classical
electromagnetic induction techniques for the landmine detection problem. The …

Imaging modes for ground penetrating radar and their relation to detection performance

DW Paglieroni, DH Chambers, JE Mast… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The focus of this paper is an empirical study conducted to determine how imaging modes for
ground penetrating radar (GPR) affect buried object detection performance. GPR data were …

Multiple-instance hidden markov models with applications to landmine detection

SE Yuksel, J Bolton, P Gader - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel multiple-instance hidden Markov model (MI-HMM) is introduced for classification of
time-series data, and its training is developed using stochastic expectation maximization …

Improving landmine detection using frequency domain features from ground penetrating radar

KC Ho, PD Gader, JN Wilson - IGARSS 2004. 2004 IEEE …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Landmine detection is an important and yet challenging problem remains to be solved.
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is an effective sensor to detect landmines that are made of …

Feature vector for underground object detection using B-scan images from GprMax

İ Meşecan, B Cico, İÖ Bucak - Microprocessors and Microsystems, 2020 - Elsevier
One common technology for underground object detection is Ground Penetrating Radar. For
landmine detection, it is vital to have a fast and accurate method. It becomes more difficult …

Efficient algorithm design for GPR imaging of landmines

KR Krueger, JH McClellan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is used to image and detect subterranean objects, for
example, in landmine detection. Although full 3-D inversion of GPR measurements is …

Detection of deeply buried non-metal objects by ground penetrating radar using non-negative matrix factorization

D Nabelek, KC Ho - … and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The ground penetrating radar (GPR) signal for a deeply buried non-metal object is weak and
often does not have a hyperbolic signature, making it difficult to detect with high confidence …

Classification of subsurface objects using singular values derived from signal frames

DH Chambers, DW Paglieroni - US Patent 8,717,223, 2014 - Google Patents
Ammari. H. et al.,“A MUSIC algorithm for locating small inclusions buried in a half-space
from the scattering amplitude at a fixed fre quency.” Multiscale Model. Simul., vol. 3, No. 3 …