No Access
Published Online: 17 July 2019
Accepted: June 2019
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, 211 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5116016
A deep learning approach based on big data is proposed to locate broadband acoustic sources using a single hydrophone in ocean waveguides with uncertain bottom parameters. Several 50-layer residual neural networks, trained on a huge number of sound field replicas generated by an acoustic propagation model, are used to handle the bottom uncertainty in source localization. A two-step training strategy is presented to improve the training of the deep models. First, the range is discretized in a coarse (5 km) grid. Subsequently, the source range within the selected interval and source depth are discretized on a finer (0.1 km and 2 m) grid. The deep learning methods were demonstrated for simulated magnitude-only multi-frequency data in uncertain environments. Experimental data from the China Yellow Sea also validated the approach.
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11434012 and 11874061) and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  1. 1. H. Niu, E. Reeves, and P. Gerstoft, “ Source localization in an ocean waveguide using supervised machine learning,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 142, 1176–1188 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5000165, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  2. 2. H. Niu, E. Ozanich, and P. Gerstoft, “ Ship localization in Santa Barbara Channel using machine learning classifiers,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 142, EL455–EL460 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5010064, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  3. 3. H. P. Bucker, “ Use of calculated sound fields and matched field detection to locate sound source in shallow water,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 59, 368–373 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.380872, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  4. 4. E. K. Westwood, “ Broadband matched-field source localization,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 2777–2789 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.402958, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  5. 5. A. B. Baggeroer, W. A. Kuperman, and P. N. Mikhalevsky, “ An overview of matched field methods in ocean acoustics,” IEEE J. Ocean. Eng. 18, 401–424 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1109/48.262292, Google ScholarCrossref
  6. 6. Z. H. Michalopoulou and M. B. Porter, “ Matched-field processing for broadband source localization,” IEEE J. Ocean. Eng. 21, 384–392 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1109/48.544049, Google ScholarCrossref
  7. 7. B. Z. Steinberg, M. J. Beran, S. H. Chin, and J. H. Howard, “ A neural network approach to source localization,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90, 2081–2090 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.401635, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  8. 8. J. M. Ozard, P. Zakarauskas, and P. Ko, “ An artificial neural network for range and depth discrimination in matched field processing,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90, 2658–2663 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.401860, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  9. 9. Z. H. Michalopoulou, D. Alexandrou, and C. Moustier, “ Application of neural and statistical classifiers to the problem of seafloor characterization,” IEEE J. Ocean. Eng. 20, 190–197 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1109/48.393074, Google ScholarCrossref
  10. 10. R. Lefort, G. Real, and A. Drémeau, “ Direct regressions for underwater acoustic source localization in fluctuating oceans,” Appl. Acoust. 116, 303–310 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2016.10.005, Google ScholarCrossref
  11. 11. Y. Wang and H. Peng, “ Underwater acoustic source localization using generalized regression neural network,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 2321–2331 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5032311, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  12. 12. Z. Huang, J. Xu, Z. Gong, H. Wang, and, Y. Yan, “ Source localization using deep neural networks in a shallow water environment,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 2922–2932 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5036725, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  13. 13. Y. Liu, H. Niu, and Z. Li, “ Source ranging using ensemble convolutional networks in the direct zone of deep water,” Chin. Phys. Lett. 36, 044302 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307X/36/4/044302, Google ScholarCrossref
  14. 14. K. L. Gemba, W. S. Hodgkiss, and P. Gerstoft, “ Adaptive and compressive matched field processing,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 92–103 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4973528, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  15. 15. K. L. Gemba, S. Nannuru, P. Gerstoft, and W. S. Hodgkiss, “ Multi-frequency sparse Bayesian learning for robust matched field processing,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 3411–3420 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4983467, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  16. 16. P. Gerstoft, “ Inversion of seismoacoustic data using genetic algorithms and a posteriori probability distributions,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 770–782 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.408387, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  17. 17. D. F. Gingras and P. Gerstoft, “ Inversion for geometric and geoacoustic parameters in shallow water: Experimental results,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 3589–3598 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.412442, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  18. 18. M. D. Collins and W. A. Kuperman, “ Focalization: Environmental focusing and source localization,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 90, 1410–1422 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.401933, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  19. 19. S. E. Dosso, “ Matched-field inversion for source localization with uncertain bathymetry,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 1160–1163 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.406966, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  20. 20. R. N. Baer and M. D. Collins, “ Source localization in the presence of gross sediment uncertainties,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 870–874 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2213523, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  21. 21. A. M. Richardson and L. W. Nolte, “ A posteriori probability source localization in an uncertain sound speed, deep ocean,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 2280–2284 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.400918, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  22. 22. S. E. Dosso and M. J. Wilmut, “ Uncertainty estimation in simultaneous Bayesian tracking and environmental inversion,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, 82–97 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2918244, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  23. 23. S. E. Dosso and M. J. Wilmut, “ Comparison of focalization and marginalization for Bayesian tracking in an uncertain ocean environment,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 717–722 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3056555, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  24. 24. L. N. Frazer and P. I. Pecholcs, “ Single-hydrophone localization,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 88, 995–1002 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.399750, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  25. 25. S. M. Jesus, M. B. Porter, Y. Stéphan, X. Démoulin, O. C. Rodríguez, and E. M. Coelho, “ Single hydrophone source localization,” IEEE J. Ocean. Eng. 25, 337–346 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1109/48.855379, Google ScholarCrossref
  26. 26. M. Siderius, P. Gerstoft, and P. Nielsen, “ Broadband geoacoustic inversion from sparse data using genetic algorithms,” J. Comput. Acoust. 6, 117–134 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218396X98000107, Google ScholarCrossref
  27. 27. J. P. Hermand, “ Broad-band geoacoustic inversion in shallow water from waveguide impulse response measurements on a single hydrophone: Theory and experimental results,” IEEE J. Ocean. Eng. 24, 41–66 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1109/48.740155, Google ScholarCrossref
  28. 28. J. C. Le Gac, M. Asch, Y. Stéphan, and X. Demoulin, “ Geoacoustic inversion of broad-band acoustic data in shallow water on a single hydrophone,” IEEE J. Ocean. Eng. 28, 479–493 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2003.816689, Google ScholarCrossref
  29. 29. G. L. D'Spain and W. A. Kuperman, “ Application of waveguide invariants to analysis of spectrograms from shallow water environments that vary in range and azimuth,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 2454–2468 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.428124, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  30. 30. K. L. Cockrell and H. Schmidt, “ Robust passive range estimation using the waveguide invariant,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 2780–2789 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3337223, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  31. 31. S. T. Rakotonarivo and W. A. Kuperman, “ Model-independent range localization of a moving source in shallow water,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 132, 2218–2223 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4748795, Google ScholarScitation, ISI
  32. 32. G. Hinton and R. R. Salakhutdinov, “ Reducing the dimensionality of data with neural networks,” Science 313, 504–507 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1127647, Google ScholarCrossref
  33. 33. Y. LeCun, Y. Bengio, and G. Hinton, “ Deep learning,” Nature 521, 436–444 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539, Google ScholarCrossref
  34. 34. J. Schmidhuber, “ Deep learning in neural networks: An overview,” Neural Netw. 61, 85–117 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2014.09.003, Google ScholarCrossref
  35. 35. A. Krizhevsky, I. Sutskever, and G. E. Hinton, “ Imagenet classification with deep convolutional neural networks,” Adv. Neural Inf. Process. Syst. 60, 1097–1105 (2012). Google Scholar
  36. 36. G. Hinton, L. Deng, D. Yu, G. E. Dahl, A. Mohamed, N. Jaitly, A. Senior, V. Vanhoucke, P. Nguyen, T. N. Sainath, and B. Kingsbury, “ Deep neural networks for acoustic modeling in speech recognition: The shared views of four research groups,” IEEE Signal Proc. Mag. 29, 82–97 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2012.2205597, Google ScholarCrossref
  37. 37. R. Collobert, J. Weston, L. Bottou, M. Karlen, K. Kavukcuoglu, and P. Kuksa, “ Natural language processing (almost) from scratch,” J. Mach. Learn. Res. 12, 2493–2537 (2011). Google Scholar
  38. 38. M. B. Porter, The KRAKEN Normal Mode Program, http://oalib.hlsresearch.com/Modes/AcousticsToolbox/manualtml/kraken.html (Last viewed November 1, 2009). Google Scholar
  39. 39. K. He, X. Zhang, S. Ren, and J. Sun, “ Deep residual learning for image recognition,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Las Vegas, NV (June 26–July 1, 2016), pp. 770–778. Google ScholarCrossref
  40. 40. See http://cs231n.github.io/convolutional-networks/#overview (Last viewed January 14, 2019). Google Scholar
  41. 41. F. Chollet, “ Keras: Deep learning library for theano and tensorflow,” https://keras.io (Last viewed March 1, 2018). Google Scholar
  42. 42. M. Abadi, A. Agarwal, P. Barham, E. Brevdo, Z. Chen, C. Citro, G. S. Corrado, A. Davis, J. Dean, M. Devin, S. Ghemawat, I. Goodfellow, A. Harp, G. Irving, M. Isard, Y. Jia, R. Jozefowicz, L. Kaiser, M. Kudlur, J. Levenberg, D. Mané, R. Monga, S. Moore, D. Murray, C. Olah, M. Schuster, J. Shlens, B. Steiner, I. Sutskever, K. Talwar, P. Tucker, V. Vanhoucke, V. Vasudevan, F. Viégas, O. Vinyals, P. Warden, M. Wattenberg, M. Wicke, Y. Yu, and X. Zheng, “ TensorFlow: Large-scale machine learning on heterogeneous distributed systems,” tensorflow.org (2015) (Last viewed March 1, 2018). Google Scholar
  43. 43. Y. Ren and Y. Qi, “ Waveguide invariant and range estimation based on phase-shift-compensation of underwater acoustic spectrograms,” AIP Conf. Proc. 1495, 627–633 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4765964, Google ScholarCrossref
  44. 44. P. Gerstoft, “ SAGA users guide: An inversion software package,” http://noiselab.ucsd.edu/saga/saga.html (Last viewed January 16, 2019). Google Scholar
  45. © 2019 Acoustical Society of America.