Automated vehicle detection in a nuclear facility using low-frequency acoustic sensors

Jason Hite, Kenneth Dayman, Nageswara Rao, Christopher Greulich, Satyabrata Sen, David Chichester, Andrew Nicholson, Dan Archer, Michael Willis, Irakli Garishvili, Andrew Rowe, James Ghawaly, Jared Johnson

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Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the method of construction and results for a classifier intended to identify vehicles using low-frequency acoustic data collected by a distributed sensor network. This data is collected as part of a venture intended to explore data analytics and multisensor fusion techniques for the monitoring of activities at a test bed nuclear facility located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. We describe the associated target signature and design a classifier based on a multilayer perceptron, followed by an analysis of its results. We discuss how overall accuracy is not the only consideration in constructing this classifier, and how for this application, it is actually desirable to operate at a lower level of accuracy in exchange for a reduction in the false alarm rate, as well as how this relates to the actual deployment of the classifier in practical use.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2020 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9780578647098
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2020
Event23rd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2020 - Virtual, Pretoria, South Africa
Duration: Jul 6 2020Jul 9 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2020 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2020

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2020
Country/TerritorySouth Africa
CityVirtual, Pretoria
Period07/6/2007/9/20

Funding

This work was funded by the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (NA-22), within the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

FundersFunder number
Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and DevelopmentNA-22
U.S. Department of Energy
National Nuclear Security AdministrationDE-AC05-00OR22725

    Keywords

    • Classification
    • Sensor networks
    • Vehicle detection

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