Domain Transfer for Continuity of Performance Across Synthetic Aperture Sonar Systems

Abstract

Using novel techniques for formalizing mathematical specifications of complex systems, we will develop a method -for representing high-level machine learning tasks that can be used to describe the problems -facing naval mine counter-measure (MCM) research and development teams. These specifications will represent -machine learning systems at a higher level of abstraction than layers and neurons, which should enable the -automatic construction of training algorithms. We will study these techniques by exploring loss function -selection and training algorithm generation. These approaches will be evaluated on synthetic aperture sonar data -sets in the context of MCM concepts of operation. -This goal will be achieved through investigation of the following research tasks: -(1) The software can emit specifications of machine learning models that can be trained with existing ML -libraries. -(2) The software can generate a list of pretraining strategies and execute a search over loss functions to rank -alternative problem formulations. -(3) The software can train the continuity of performance diagram morphism shown in Fig. 3. -(4) The continuity of performance training in release 3 has been evaluated on SAS Data. -(5) The software has improvements to the diagram morphism training methods in release 1 and 2. -(6) These improvements have been evaluated on SAS data.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Apr 12, 2023
Source ID
N000142312339

Entities

People

  • James Fairbanks

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy
  • University of Florida

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks