EFFICIENT DETECTION OF LANDMINES FROM ACOUSTIC IMAGES

The Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV)-based Acoustic to Seismic (A/S) landmine detection system is one of the reliable and powerful landmine detection systems. The interpretation of the LDVbased A/S data is performed off-line, manually, depending heavily on the skills, experience, alertness and consistency of a trained operator. This takes a long time. The manually obtained results suffer from errors, particularly when dealing with large volumes of data. This paper proposes some techniques for the automatic detection of objects from the acoustic images which are obtained from the LDV-based A/S landmine detection system. These techniques are based on Corresponding author: F. E. Abd El-Samie (fathi sayed@yahoo.com).