浅海波导中水平接收阵被动时反混响抑制方法研究

使用基于射线简正波异地混响理论建立的水平接收阵接收海底混响模型,提出了水平阵被动时反混响抑制方法。以水平接收阵接收回波信号的某一时刻作为开始,分别对其前一时刻和后一时刻的回波信号做时反算子分解获得两个混响子空间,将这两个混响子空间的平均作为该时刻的混响子空间的一个估计,然后利用投影处理来抑制该时刻接收信号中的混响成分。该方法可以在一定程度上克服由于海底粗糙引起的局部时间(距离)段内接收回波信号的不平稳性,使得估计得到的混响子空间更加接近真实混响子空间。因此,利用其进行被动时反混响抑制可以增强回波信混比,提高对目标的检测和方位估计能力。针对典型浅海波导环境开展的仿真验证了本文方法的有效性。     

Echo-to-reverberation enhancement based on decomposition of time reversal operator with forward and backward reverberation nulling constrains

Combined the decomposition of time reversal operator and the time reversal reverberation nulling, a new time reversal processing approach for echo-to-reverberation ratio enhancement is proposed. In this method, a 2-dimensional signal subspace for the range of the target and two bottom focusing weight vectors for the ranges near the target are obtained by the decomposition of time reversal operator. From the signal subspace and focusing weight vectors, a constrained optimal excitation weight vector of source receiver array can be deduced to null the acoustic energy on the corresponding bottom and maximize the energy at the tar- get. This method remedies the shortages of conventional time reversal processing, time reversal reverberation nulling and time reversal selective focusing method. It focuses sound energy at the target and nulls the energy at the bottom near the target range simultaneously, therefore enhancing the echo-to-reverberation ratio without probe source and prior-knowledge of the relative scattering intensity of target and bottom. Numerical simulations in typical shallow water environments showed the effectiveness of the proposed method and its improved performance for echo-reverberation enhancement than conventional time reversal processing.     

前后混响零点约束下基于时反算子分解的信混比增强方法研究

结合时反算子分解和时反混响置零方法,提出了一种前后混响零点约束下基于时反算子分解的信混比增强新方法。利用目标回波出现时刻及其出现前后时刻的回波信号,通过时反算子分解获得目标距离对应的一个二维信号子空间和目标前后距离附近的海底聚焦权向量,根据该信号子空间和海底聚焦权向量,以目标前后距离附近的海底声场置零、目标处最大为约束条件,导出了时反阵的一个约束最优激励权向量。该方法解决了现有直接时反处理、混响置零方法以及时反选择性聚焦方法存在的局限性,可以在没有探测声源、没有目标和海底散射强度谁大谁小的先验知识的条件下,实现声场在目标处聚焦,同时在目标距离附近海底处设置混响凹槽,进一步增强回波信混比。针对典型浅海波导环境,通过计算机仿真验证了所提方法的有效性及其改进的信混比增强能力。     

Resolution enhancement and separation of reverberation from target echo with the time reversal operator decomposition

Time reversal operator (TRO) decompositions are performed in a model of an ocean wave guide containing a target and having different kinds of bottom. The objective is to study the effects of bottom reverberation and absorption by means of ultrasonic experiments. It is shown experimentally that the echo from a target can be separated from the bottom reverberation. Reverberation eigenvectors are back propagated in the wave guide leading to focus on the bottom. An amplitude correction is applied to both reverberation and signal eigenvectors to compensate for bottom absorption and thus to improve target resolution.     

自适应红外目标特征增强算法

利用直方图均衡化和灰度变换增强算法,不能有效增强红外图像目标。鉴于此,在研究红外图像特点的基础上,提出了一种自适应红外目标特征增强算法。该算法先对红外图像进行中值滤波,滤除掉图像中的随机噪声,然后利用直方图分割将红外图像分为目标和背景2部分,通过线性加权叠加抑制背景和增强目标。实验表明,该算法不仅能够根据红外图像中目标的灰度特性自适应地选取直方图分割阈值,而且在去除噪声和增加对比度的同时还抑制了背景,达到了预期的效果。该算法尤其适用于目标和背景像素比例相近时直方图具有局域双峰特征的红外图像中目标的增强。     

强混响背景下悬浮目标的时反成像

提出了一种加权宽带全信号子空间时反成像方法,将扩展性目标建模为有限数量个、相互独立的点散射体构成,实现了时反成像在可疑目标区域的全信号子空间和整个宽带的累加。在实验室波导水池中,底部放置圆柱筒制造混响背景,共进行了两个实验,一是扩展性的悬浮目标位于圆柱筒附近,其回波与圆柱筒反射的混响不在同一个时间窗内,二是弱点目标回波与圆柱筒反射的混响重叠于同一个时间窗内,对所提出的方法进行强混响背景下弱悬浮目标的成像能力验证。结果表明,此方法对强混响背景下的弱悬浮目标的成像质量明显优于传统的时反成像方法。     

Time reversal imaging of suspended target in strong reverberation

The weighted wideband time-reversal imaging approach of full signal subspaces was proposed.The extended target is modeled as an infinite number of independent point-like scatterers,and the imaging is constructed by accumulating all time-reversal images over all signal subspaces and the entire bandwidth in the region of suspected targets.On the bottom of a laboratory water waveguide,a cylindrical shell was used to produce reverberation.Two experiments were carried out.The first experiment is that...     

基于分数阶傅里叶变换混响抑制的目标回波检测方法

提出了一种声呐发射信号为线性调频信号时,基于分数阶傅里叶变换混响抑制的目标回波信号检测方法。通过计算混响的缓慢时变包络,对混响进行时间域的平稳化处理。对平稳化的混响信号滑动窗截取,对截取信号进行分数阶傅里叶变换,然后在分数阶傅里叶域进行滤波处理,再进行逆分数阶傅里叶变换恢复出时间域信号,最后输出该信号的能量。当滑动窗截取到目标回波信号时,窗内的混响噪声得到抑制,系统输出目标回波的能量,从而实现混响背景下的信号检测。通过计算机仿真和湖试实验结果,表明所提方法可以准确的在混响背景下检测到目标回波信号,并且在混响噪声背景条件下相比于匹配滤波器具有更好的检测性能。     

A method for detecting target echo in reverberation based on fractional Fourier transform

A method for detecting the target echo in reverberation was proposed based on fractional Fourier transform theory when the transmitted signal is linear frequency modulation signal. The slow time-varying envelope of reverberation is computed to process reverberation to be stationary. The stationary reverberation is cut into blocks using a sliding window. A narrow-band filter is applied in FrFT domain for each block and the signal is recovered through inverse FrFT. Output of the system is the energy of the recovered signal. When the target echo is included in one of the blocks, the reverberation noise is reduced, and the output is the energy of the target echo. All the simulation and lake experiment results show that the detection performance of the present method is better than that of the matched filter.     

Achromatic nulling interferometer for stellar coronography

A common-path interferometer that is intended for observation of a faint off-axis light source against the background of an intense on-axis source is suggested. The on-axis source and its replicated image acquire an achromatic phase shift of 180° and interfere in antiphase. The achromatic phase shift is due to the geometrical phase in the configuration of a 3D interferometer. Interference spatially separates the dark and bright fields of the on-axis source by directing them to different sides of a beam splitter. At the same time, interference does not attenuate the field of the off-axis source, directing it to different sides of the beam splitter with equal intensities. Such a configuration of the common-path interferometer provides mechanical stability.     

一种混响背景下的自适应动目标检测方法

本文提出了一种混响和噪声干扰下动目标检测的自适应方法,其结构为自适应混响抵消器（ARC）加推广的自适应相干累积器（GACI）。用自适应混响抵消实现干扰背景的预白化,用推广的自适应相干累积实现匹配滤波的功能。该方法不需要混响干扰的先验知识,也不需要知道信号参量,就可以实现混响干扰背景下动目标的检测。仿真和试验表明,其具有良好的动目标检测性能,且具有很好的海洋信道适应能力。     

Absolute measurements of total target strength from reverberation in a cavity

A new method was developed to acoustically measure the density and total scattering cross-section (sigma(t)) or total target strength [TTS = 10log10(sigma(t)/4pi)] of objects in motion in a highly reflective cavity [J. De Rosny and P. Roux, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2587-2597 (2001)]. From an ensemble of pulse-echo recordings, the average contribution of the scatterer(s) to the reverberation within the cavity provides a measurement of the scattering mean free path. The latter was shown through theory and experiment to be proportional to the volume of the cavity and inversely proportional the product of the mean sigma(t) and number of scatterers. Here, the TTS measurement uncertainty is characterized using standard metal spheres as references. Theoretical TTS was calculated for multiple copper and tungsten carbide standard spheres (Cu: 60.0 30.05 and 23 mm and WC: 38.1 and 33.4 mm diameters, respectively), using well-described theory for scattering from elastic spheres and the optical theorem. Measurements of TTS were made over a wide bandwidth (30-120 kHz) and compared to their theoretical values. Measurements were made in a corrugated, cylindrical, galvanized-steel tank with 25 or 50 l of fresh water at a temperature of 21 +/- 1 degrees C. The results indicate the method can provide TTS measurements that are accurate to at least 0.4 dB with an average precision of +/-0.7 dB (95% confidence interval). Discussed are the requisite cavity volumes and signal-to-noise ratios for quality measurements of TTS, tank volume, and/or numerical abundance of mobile targets. Also discussed are multiple potential applications of this technique in bioacoustical oceanography.     

混响背景下低秩矩阵恢复的目标亮点特征提取

有源声呐探测水下目标时,混响干扰增加了从目标回波信号中提取目标亮点特征的难度.依据目标回波与混响在时频域上能量分布的相关性不同,采用自适应核时频分析方法将目标回波信号变换到时频域上进行分析.通过低秩矩阵恢复方法将目标回波与混响分到稀疏矩阵和低秩矩阵中,从而分离目标回波与混响,降低混响对回波信号的干扰.针对稀疏矩阵采用Hough变换提取回波中的亮点峰,得到目标的亮点特征。通过仿真和实验数据证明在较低信混比情况下通过低秩矩阵恢复方法能够在时频域上进一步区分目标回波与混响,达到抑制混响的目的,便于获取目标亮点特征。     

Passive signal enhancement in spatially offset Raman spectroscopy

We demonstrate experimentally, for the first time, the feasibility of enhancing signals in Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) using a dielectric bandpass filter, building on our earlier experimental work on the enhancement of transmission Raman signals. The method is shown to lead to the enhancement of both the surface and subsurface Raman layer signal improving the signal‐to‐noise ratio of Raman spectra from the deep areas of samples, thus enhancing the technique's sensitivity and penetration depth. The filter is placed over the laser illumination zone, on the sample surface acting as a ‘unidirectional’ mirror transmitting the collimated laser beam on one side and reflecting photons escaping from the sample back into it. This enhances the degree of coupling of laser radiation into the medium and associated generated Raman signal. The feasibility study was performed on a two‐layer sample with the second layer located at the limit of the penetration depth of the method for this sample. The sample consisted of a 2.2‐mm over‐layer of a thinned paracetamol tablet followed by a 2‐mm layer of trans‐stilbene powder. The Raman signal was collected from a spatially offset region through a hole fabricated within the filter. The experiments demonstrate the presence of an enhancement of the Raman signal from both the layers by a factor of 4.4–4.5 and the improved signal‐to‐noise ratio of sublayer signal by a factor of 2.2, in agreement with photon shot noise dominated signal. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Spatial and temporal bilateral filter for infrared small target enhancement

This paper presents a spatial and temporal bilateral filter (BF) to detect target trajectories, by extracting spatial target information using a spatial BF and temporal target information using a temporal BF. Background prediction when it is covered by targets is the key to small target detection. In order to apply the BF to a small target detection field for this purpose, this paper presents a novel spatial and temporal BF with an adaptive standard deviation to predict spatial background and temporal background profiles, based on analysis of the blocks surrounding a spatial and temporal filter window. In order to discriminate between the edge or object regions with a flat background and the target region spatially and temporally, spatial and temporal variances of the blocks surrounding the filter window are calculated in a spatial infrared (IR) image and temporal profile. The spatial and temporal variances adjust standard deviations of the spatial and temporal BF. Through this procedure, spatial background and temporal background profiles are predicted, and then small targets can be detected by subtracting the predicted spatial background (and temporal background profile) from the original IR image (and original temporal profile) and multiplying spatial and temporal target information. To compare existing target detection methods and the proposed method, signal-to-clutter ratio gain (SCRG) and background suppression factor (BSF) are employed for spatial performance comparison and receiver operating characteristics (ROC) is used for detection-performance comparison of the target trajectory. Experimental results show that the proposed method has a superior target detection rate and a lower false-alarm rate.     

Speech segregation in rooms: effects of reverberation on both target and interferer

Speech reception thresholds were measured to investigate the influence of a room on speech segregation between a spatially separated target and interferer. The listening tests were realized under headphones. A room simulation allowed selected positioning of the interferer and target, as well as varying the absorption coefficient of the room internal surfaces. The measurements involved target sentences and speech-shaped noise or 2-voice interferers. Four experiments revealed that speech segregation in rooms was not only dependent on the azimuth separation of sound sources, but also on their direct-to-reverberant energy ratio at the listening position. This parameter was varied for interferer and target independently. Speech intelligibility decreased as the direct-to-reverberant ratio of sources was degraded by sound reflections in the room. The influence of the direct-to-reverberant ratio of the interferer was in agreement with binaural unmasking theories, through its effect on interaural coherence. The effect on the target occurred at higher levels of reverberation and was explained by the intrinsic degradation of speech intelligibility in reverberation.     

水下目标回波与混响的时频形态特征域盲分离

水下沉底或掩埋目标识别受海底混响干扰严重,并且目标回波与混响在时-频域上均存在混叠,增大了对目标回波与混响的分离难度。根据目标回波与混响的产生机理差异,将图像形态学与时频分析相结合的盲分离算法用于目标回波与混响的分离。推导了目标几何声散射成分与混响在Wigner-Ville时频面的形态特征表达式,利用图像形态学滤波去除Wigner-Ville时频面中的混响及刚性亮点之间交叉项,在时频形态特征域获取解混矩阵,实现了目标回波和混响的分离。仿真与实验数据处理结果表明,结合图像形态学的时频域盲分离算法提高了目标回波信号的信混比。     

Determination of the target strength of a scatterer with the use of surface reverberation

Results of measuring the target strength of a scatterer by using the data on the sound propagation and surface reverberation in the basin are presented. The proposed technique implies the use of a receiving antenna array with a narrow directivity pattern and a bistatic scheme of location.     

海底混响仿真研究

提出了一种新颖的海底混响仿真工程实现模型.它是基于单元散射的理论,通过模拟海底混响形成的物理过程实现仿真,具有仿真效果好,工程上易于实现的特点.根据该模型实现的多通道海底混响模拟器功能强、柔软性好,所产生的海底混响仿真信号无论是在形式上还是在统计特性方面与实测海底混响相比较都有很好的一致性.此外,该模拟器还可以作为目标模拟器或者相控/束控信号源使用.