Histograms of Dominant Orientations for anti-personnel landmine detection using Ground Penetrating Radar

Eyyup Temlioglu, Isin Erer, Deniz Kumlu

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Abstract

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) senses dielectric discontinuities below the surface. Thus, it can detect low-metal and non-metal landmines. However, it detects not only landmines but also all objects under the ground and therefore, false alarm rates of GPR are very high. Powerful feature based algorithms are required to reduce false alarm rates and to distinguish landmine from clutter that causes false alarms. In this paper, Histograms of Dominant Orientations (HDO) feature extraction method is implemented for landmine detection problem. HDO method is compared with Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) method which is the state-of-the-art feature extraction method for landmine detection. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves are calculated for comparison of methods and it is shown that the HDO outperforms HOG.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 4th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ICEEE 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages329-332
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781509067886
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 May 2017
Event4th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ICEEE 2017 - Ankara, Turkey
Duration: 8 Apr 201710 Apr 2017

Publication series

Name2017 4th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ICEEE 2017

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ICEEE 2017
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityAnkara
Period8/04/1710/04/17

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Feature descriptor
  • Feature extraction
  • Ground penetrating radar (GPR)
  • Histograms of dominant orientations (HDO)
  • Landmine detection

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