Improved Tucker decomposition algorithm for noise suppression of 3D GPR data in road detection

The echo data of ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) have a low signal‐to‐noise ratio. Denoising and interference suppression are important for improving the accuracy of underground target recognition and detection. In this paper, a new method of noise analysis and suppression of 3D GPR is proposed, tran...

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Published in:Near surface geophysics (Online) 2023-04, Vol.21 (2), p.138-151
Main Authors: Yan, Kun, Zhang, Zhihua, Xu, Xianlei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
3D GPR
bidimensional EMD
empirical mode decomposition (EMD)
high‐order orthogonal iteration
noise suppression
Tucker decomposition
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Summary:The echo data of ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) have a low signal‐to‐noise ratio. Denoising and interference suppression are important for improving the accuracy of underground target recognition and detection. In this paper, a new method of noise analysis and suppression of 3D GPR is proposed, transforming the problem of noise reduction into an optimization problem regarding a third‐order tensor. This method is improved with the following features; a bidimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) algorithm is employed to decompose the 3D GPR noise. The main source of the noise is determined by computing the standard deviation of each component decomposed. For the shortcoming of the existing GPR denoising methods that reduce the dimension of 3D GPR data, the proposed approach can denoise 3D GPR data directly to avoid the loss of data caused by reducing the dimension. This preserves the desired signal and extracts noise through the Tucker decomposition of 3D GPR data. An improved high‐order orthogonal iteration algorithm is utilized to optimize the decomposition. The peak signal‐to‐noise ratio (PSNR) of the signal for each survey line is calculated to evaluate the effectiveness of noise reduction. Simulations and real data sets are provided to compare the performance of algorithms. The results show that the mean PSNR after noise suppression with our method is 8.915 dB and 16.458 dB higher than wavelet transform and singular value decomposition algorithms, respectively. This demonstrates that the proposed approach can better suppress 3D GPR noise and provides technical support for improving 3D GPR data quality and road detection accuracy.
ISSN:1569-4445
1873-0604
DOI:10.1002/nsg.12246