Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

• Sajjad Mahmoudikhah ¹
• Seyed Hamid Zahiri ¹
• Iman Behravan ²

¹ Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.

² Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.

Abstract

Background and Objectives: Sonar data processing helps in identifying and tracking targets with unstable echoes, which conventional tracking methods often misidentify. Recently, RLA has significantly improved the accuracy of undersea target detection compared to traditional sonar object recognition techniques that tend to lack robustness and precision.
Methods: This research utilizes a combination of classifiers to improve the accuracy of Sonar data classification for complex tasks like identifying marine targets. Each classifier creates its own data pattern and maintains a model. Ultimately, a weighted voting process is carried out by the fuzzy learning automata algorithm among these classifiers, with the one receiving the highest votes being the most impactful on performance improvement.
Results: We compared the performance of SVM, RF, DT, XGBoost, ensemble methods, R-EFMD, T-EFMD, R-LFMD, T-LFMD, ANN, CNN, TIFR-DCNN+SA, and joint models against the proposed model. Given the differences in objectives and databases, we focused on benchmarking the average detection rate. This comparison examined key parameters including Precision, Recall, F1_Score, and Accuracy to highlight the superior performance of the proposed method compared to the others.
Conclusion: The results obtained with the analytical parameters Precision, Recall, F1_Score and Accuracy have been examined and compared with the latest similar research and the values of 88.6%, 90.2%, 89.02% and 88.6% have been obtained for each of these parameters in the proposed method, respectively. Also, in this research, the impressive performance of the new method compared to the Sonar data fusion by the conventional learning automata method is evident.

Keywords

• Sonar Classification
• Fuzzy Learning Automata
• Performance Parameters
• Data Fusion

Main Subjects

• Data Fusion

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