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AI Radar Sensor: Creating Radar Depth Sounder Images Based on Generative Adversarial Network
Rahnemoonfar, Maryam Johnson, Jimmy Paden, John
Rahnemoonfar, Maryam
Johnson, Jimmy
Paden, John
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Significant resources have been spent in collecting and storing large and heterogeneous radar datasets during expensive Arctic and Antarctic fieldwork. The vast majority of data available is unlabeled, and the labeling process is both time-consuming and expensive. One possible alternative to the labeling process is the use of synthetically generated data with artificial intelligence. Instead of labeling real images, we can generate synthetic data based on arbitrary labels. In this way, training data can be quickly augmented with additional images. In this research, we evaluated the performance of synthetically generated radar images based on modified cycle-consistent adversarial networks. We conducted several experiments to test the quality of the generated radar imagery. We also tested the quality of a state-of-the-art contour detection algorithm on synthetic data and different combinations of real and synthetic data. Our experiments show that synthetic radar images generated by generative adversarial network (GAN) can be used in combination with real images for data augmentation and training of deep neural networks. However, the synthetic images generated by GANs cannot be used solely for training a neural network (training on synthetic and testing on real) as they cannot simulate all of the radar characteristics such as noise or Doppler effects. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work in creating radar sounder imagery based on generative adversarial network.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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2019-12-12
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Convolutional neural network, Generative adversarial network, Ice tracking, Radar imagery
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Rahnemoonfar, M., Johnson, J., & Paden, J. (2019). AI Radar Sensor: Creating Radar Depth Sounder Images Based on Generative Adversarial Network. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 19(24), 5479. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19245479