A Wavelet Packet Algorithm for Classification and Detectionof Moving Vehicles

  • Authors:
  • Amir Averbuch;Eyal Hulata;Valery Zheludev;Inna Kozlov

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel;Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel;Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel;Electro-Optics Research and Development Ltd (EORD) Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a robustalgorithm that solves two related problems: 1) Classificationof acoustic signals emitted by different moving vehicles. Therecorded signals have to be assigned to pre-existing categoriesindependently from the recording surrounding conditions. 2) Detectionof the presence of a vehicle in a certain class via analysisof its acoustic signature against the existing database of recordedand processed acoustic signals. To achieve this detection withpractically no false alarms we construct the acoustic signatureof a certain vehicle using the distribution of the energies amongblocks which consist of wavelet packet coefficients. We allowno false alarms in the detection even under severe conditions;for example when the acoustic recording of target object is asuperposition of the acoustics emitted from other vehicles thatbelong to other classes. The proposed algorithm is robust evenunder severe noise and a range of rough surrounding conditions.This technology, which has many algorithmic variations, can beused to solve a wide range of classification and detection problemswhich are based on acoustic processing which are not relatedto vehicles. These have numerous applications.