Comparison of different classification algorithms for underwater target discrimination

Classification of underwater targets from the acoustic backscattered signals is considered. Several different classification algorithms are tested and benchmarked not only for their performance but also to gain insight to the properties of the feature space. Results on a wideband 80-kHz acoustic backscattered data set collected for six different objects are presented in terms of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and robustness of the classifiers wrt reverberation.

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