Classification of human activity on water through micro-Dopplers using deep convolutional neural networks

Youngwook Kim; Taesup Moon

doi:10.1117/12.2224196

12 May 2016 Classification of human activity on water through micro-Dopplers using deep convolutional neural networks

Youngwook Kim, Taesup Moon

Proceedings Volume 9829, Radar Sensor Technology XX; 982917 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2224196
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

Detecting humans and classifying their activities on the water has significant applications for surveillance, border patrols, and rescue operations. When humans are illuminated by radar signal, they produce micro-Doppler signatures due to moving limbs. There has been a number of research into recognizing humans on land by their unique micro-Doppler signatures, but there is scant research into detecting humans on water. In this study, we investigate the micro-Doppler signatures of humans on water, including a swimming person, a swimming person pulling a floating object, and a rowing person in a small boat. The measured swimming styles were free stroke, backstroke, and breaststroke. Each activity was observed to have a unique micro-Doppler signature. Human activities were classified based on their micro-Doppler signatures. For the classification, we propose to apply deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN), a powerful deep learning technique. Rather than using conventional supervised learning that relies on handcrafted features, we present an alternative deep learning approach. We apply the DCNN, one of the most successful deep learning algorithms for image recognition, directly to a raw micro-Doppler spectrogram of humans on the water. Without extracting any explicit features from the micro-Dopplers, the DCNN can learn the necessary features and build classification boundaries using the training data. We show that the DCNN can achieve accuracy of more than 87.8% for activity classification using 5- fold cross validation.

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Youngwook Kim and Taesup Moon "Classification of human activity on water through micro-Dopplers using deep convolutional neural networks", Proc. SPIE 9829, Radar Sensor Technology XX, 982917 (12 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2224196

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