Data-Driven Methods for Sonar Imaging

• Main Author: Nilsson, Lovisa
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Linköpings universitet, Datorseende 2021
• Subjects: Sonar; Reconstruction; Inverse Problems; Deep Learning; Data-driven Methods; Signal Processing; Signalbehandling; Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems); Datorseende och robotik (autonoma system); Other Physics Topics; Annan fysik
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-176249

Reconstruction of sonar images is an inverse problem, which is normally solved with model-based methods. These methods may introduce undesired artifacts called angular and range leakage into the reconstruction. In this thesis, a method called Learned Primal-Dual Reconstruction, which combines a data-driven and a model-based approach, is used to investigate the use of data-driven methods for reconstruction within sonar imaging. The method uses primal and dual variables inspired by classical optimization methods where parts are replaced by convolutional neural networks to iteratively find a solution to the reconstruction problem. The network is trained and validated with synthetic data on eight models with different architectures and training parameters. The models are evaluated on measurement data and the results are compared with those from a purely model-based method. Reconstructions performed on synthetic data, where a ground truth image is available, show that it is possible to achieve reconstructions with the data-driven method that have less leakage than reconstructions from the model-based method. For reconstructions performed on measurement data where no ground truth is available, some variants of the learned model achieve a good result with less leakage.