arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

A Distributed Acoustic Sensing Dataset for Vessel Detection and Localization in Submarine Cable Protection

arXiv:2607. 28306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent incidents of accidental damage and suspected sabotage to submarine telecommunication and power cables, particularly in the Baltic Sea, have underscored their vulnerability and the need for continuous monitoring solutions.

By Erick Eduardo Ramirez-Torres, Javier Macias-Guarasa, Daniel Pizarro, Javier Tejedor, Sira Elena Palazuelos-Cagigas, Pedro J. Vidal-Moreno, Mar\'ia R. Fern\'andez-Ruiz, Sonia Martin-Lopez, Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez, Roel Vanthillo
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
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Over-The-Air Extreme Learning Machines with Nonlinear Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces

The paper proposes an eXtremely Large MIMO system that functions as an Extreme Learning Machine for over‑the‑air binary classification. It uses cascaded metasurfaces, with a front layer providing a fixed nonlinear activation and subsequent tunable linear layers implementing trained weights directly in the wave domain. Numerical results on various datasets show that this low‑complexity, wave‑domain architecture achieves classification accuracy comparable to ideal digital models.

By Kyriakos Stylianopoulos, Mattia Fabiani, Giulia Torcolacci, Davide Dardari, George C. Alexandropoulos