Target group distribution pattern analysis with bagged convolutional neural networks for UAV distribution pattern identification
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology
ISSN: 0002-2667
Article publication date: 15 November 2021
Issue publication date: 10 February 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to address the limitations of existing target group distribution pattern analysis methods and identify subtle distribution differences within and between the groups with no pre-specified distribution features. Classical work generally concentrates on either the group distribution tendency or shape as a whole and simply ignores the subtle distribution differences within the group. Other work is constrained to pre-defined spatial distribution features.
Design/methodology/approach
This study proposes a novel algorithm for target group distribution pattern analysis. This study first transforms the group distribution data with uncertain measurements into a distributional image. Upon that, a bagged convolutional neural network model is constructed to discriminate the delicate group distribution patterns.
Findings
Experimental results indicate that our method is robust to target missing and location variance and scalable with dataset size. Our method has outperformed the benchmark machine learning methods significantly in pattern identification accuracy.
Originality/value
Our method is applicable for complex unmanned aerial vehicle distribution pattern identification.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 61771177] and partially supported by the Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and Industrialization.
Citation
Xu, X. (2022), "Target group distribution pattern analysis with bagged convolutional neural networks for UAV distribution pattern identification", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 94 No. 3, pp. 398-406. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-05-2021-0142
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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