Detection and classification of ground penetrating radar image using textrual features

Abstract

Detection and classification of an object is of growing concern in many application areas. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data has been widely used in fields like military, archeology, and geophysical exploration and many such applications. In this paper, we present a combination of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) approach and Blob detector for detection of buried objects from ground penetrating radar (GPR) data. Classification is done using Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers for landmine identification. 3-Dimensional data is collected using GPR Vehicle Mounted system. Buried objects are detected using the proposed SVD and blob detector approach. The located buried objects are then classified to discriminate between landmines and other objects. Performance of the proposed system was evaluated for different kernels of SVM classifiers for a number of datasets collected for different targets and soil conditions.