High-Resolution Underwater Mapping Using Side-Scan Sonar. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The goal of this study is to generate high-resolution sea floor maps using a Side-Scan Sonar(SSS). This is achieved by explicitly taking into account the SSS operation as follows.
Antoni Burguera, Gabriel Oliver
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Estimation of the Acoustic Transducer Beam Aperture by Using the Geometric Backscattering Model for Side-Scan Sonar Systems [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 In this paper, we propose an algorithm for estimating the beam aperture of the acoustic transducers by using the geometric backscattering model for side-scan sonar systems. The geometric backscattering model is developed to describe the propagation paths
Van Duc Nguyen +3 more
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A Side-Scan Sonar Image Synthesis Method Based on a Diffusion Model
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 The limited number and under-representation of side-scan sonar samples hinders the training of high-performance underwater object detection models. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose a diffusion model-based method to augment side-scan sonar
Zhiwei Yang +4 more
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A Mosaic Method for Side-Scan Sonar Strip Images Based on Curvelet Transform and Resolution Constraints [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Due to the complex marine environment, side-scan sonar signals are unstable, resulting in random non-rigid distortion in side-scan sonar strip images. To reduce the influence of resolution difference of common areas on strip image mosaicking, we proposed
Ning Zhang +4 more
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Side-Scan Sonar Image Segmentation Based on Multi-Channel CNN for AUV Navigation [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 The AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) navigation process relies on the interaction of a variety of sensors. The side-scan sonar can collect underwater images and obtain semantic underwater environment information after processing, which will help ...
Dianyu Yang +4 more
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Multi-Scale Marine Object Detection in Side-Scan Sonar Images Based on BES-YOLO. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Aiming at the problem of low accuracy of multi-scale seafloor target detection in side-scan sonar images with high noise and complex background texture, a model for multi-scale target detection using the BES-YOLO network is proposed.
Ma Q, Jin S, Bian G, Cui Y.
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Unsupervised underwater shipwreck detection in side-scan sonar images based on domain-adaptive techniques. [PDF]
Sci RepUnderwater object detection based on side-scan sonar (SSS) suffers from a lack of finely annotated data. This study aims to avoid the laborious task of annotation by achieving unsupervised underwater object detection through domain-adaptive object ...
Wei C +5 more
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A High-Efficiency Side-Scan Sonar Simulator for High-Speed Seabed Mapping. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2023 Side scan sonar (SSS) is a multi–purpose ocean sensing technology, but due to the complex engineering and variable underwater environment, its research process often faces many uncertain obstacles.
Meng X, Xu W, Shen B, Guo X.
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A Small-Sample Target Detection Method of Side-Scan Sonar Based on CycleGAN and Improved YOLOv8
Applied SciencesBecause of their low cost and ease of deployment, side-scan sonars is one of the most widely used underwater survey instruments. However, the complexity of the marine environment and the difficulty in target acquisition limit the detection accuracy of ...
Ye Zheng +3 more
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Remote SensingSide-scan sonar plays a crucial role in underwater exploration, and the autonomous detection of side-scan sonar images is vital for detecting unknown underwater environments. However, due to the complexity of the underwater environment, the presence of a
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