arXiv Machine Learning

Mitigating Spectral Bias in Neural Operators for Underwater Transmission Loss Prediction

The paper addresses the spectral bias of Fourier Neural Operators (FNO) in predicting underwater acoustic transmission loss. It introduces a Spectral‑Spatial Residual Learning (S2RL) framework that first uses a spectral global propagator for coarse predictions and then a spatial local refiner to recover high‑frequency details. Experiments on a South China Sea dataset show that S2RL outperforms FNO baselines while keeping inference times in the millisecond range.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

Deep Learning-Based Statistical Downscaling of Sea Surface Temperature Using a Residual Corrective Neural Network

arXiv:2608. 10022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The large-scale oceanic and atmospheric forecasts provided by global climate models typically lack sufficient resolution to accurately capture the response of the coastal ocean to atmospheric forcing and coastal circulation that drive fine-scale SST variability.

By Onkar Jadhav, Tim French, Ivica Janekovic, Nicole L. Jones, Matthew Rayson
arXiv AI
6d ago

AUWave: A Data-Driven Model for Reconstructing Significant Wave Heights Using Sparse Observations

AUWave is a hybrid deep‑learning framework that reconstructs high‑resolution regional significant wave height (SWH) fields from sparse buoy observations. By combining a station‑wise encoder with a multi‑scale U‑Net enhanced by self‑attention, it outperforms a baseline model, especially when more than one buoy is available, and identifies critical anchor stations through buoy ablation studies. Cross‑basin tests in the Atlantic and Pacific demonstrate the model’s robustness and portability, suggesting its applicability for operational ocean monitoring and data assimilation.

By Hongyuan Shi, Yilin Zhai, Ping Dong, Zaijin You, Chao Zhan, Qing Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Towards Deployable Underwater Vessel Classification

The paper presents a compact underwater acoustic classification framework that integrates multi-representation feature engineering, temporal statistical pooling, and lightweight convolutional architectures for acoustic time-frequency and cochlear representations. Experiments on the ShipsEar dataset show a two-layer CNN achieving a macro F1 of 0.9918 and an RBF-SVM reaching 0.9883, but recording provenance issues limit verification of generalisation. When evaluated on the DeepShip dataset with recording-level partitioning, a 157K-parameter CNN attains a macro F1 of 0.7226, while a larger ResNet18 does not improve validation performance, underscoring the need for representation-aware design and rigorous evaluation for deployable systems.

By Abishek Soti, Thura Pyae Sone, Naqib Ibnul, Htoo Htet Aung, Henry Zhong, Gregory Cohen, Ying Xu