Presentation 2024-01-19
Development of Riemannian Quaternion Self-Organizing Map and Its Application in Full-Polarimetric GPR Landmine Detection
Yicheng Song, Ryo Natsuaki, Akira Hirose,
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Abstract(in English) Ground penetrating radar (GPR) based landmine detection has advantages such as high safety and high efficiency. There are various methods to process the data obtained from GPR systems. One of the commonly used methods is to visualize the quaternion-type polarization data by quaternion self-organizing map (QSOM). However, QSOM can not take into account the geometric property of the polarization data. Then, degree-of-polarization (DoP) error is introduced in the self-organization process of QSOM, which leads to unsatisfactory visualization results. To overcome the limitation, in this report, we introduce a novel processing, Riemannian quaternion self-organizing map (RQSOM), which takes into account the geometric property to eliminate the DoP error with the help of geodesics in Riemannian geometry. We analyze its basic dynamics and compare it with that of QSOM. We conduct experiments to visualize a mock plastic landmine with QSOM and RQSOM. The experimental results show that RQSOM realizes expected self-organization dynamics, thereby achieving better visualization results compared to QSOM.
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Keyword(in English) Riemannian quaternion self-organizing map (RQSOM)degree-of-polarization (DoP) error
Paper # SANE2023-97
Date of Issue 2024-01-11 (SANE)

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Conference Date 2024/1/18(2days)
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Chair Toshio Wakayama(Mitsubishi Electric)
Vice Chair Takeshi Amishima(Meiji Univ.) / Atsushi Kezuka(ENRI)
Secretary Takeshi Amishima(Mitsubishi Electric) / Atsushi Kezuka(Univ. of Electro-Comm)
Assistant Junichi Naganawa(ENRI) / Yoshihiko Akamine(TRDI)

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Title (in English) Development of Riemannian Quaternion Self-Organizing Map and Its Application in Full-Polarimetric GPR Landmine Detection
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Keyword(1) Riemannian quaternion self-organizing map (RQSOM)degree-of-polarization (DoP) error
1st Author's Name Yicheng Song
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
2nd Author's Name Ryo Natsuaki
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
3rd Author's Name Akira Hirose
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(UTokyo)
Date 2024-01-19
Paper # SANE2023-97
Volume (vol) vol.123
Number (no) SANE-341
Page pp.pp.41-46(SANE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2024-01-11 (SANE)