Machine Learning Based Forward Solver: An Automatic Framework in gprMax

Utsav Akhaury; Iraklis Giannakis; Craig Warren; Antonios Giannopoulos

doi:10.1109/IWAGPR50767.2021.9843172

Machine Learning Based Forward Solver: An Automatic Framework in gprMax

Utsav Akhaury, Iraklis Giannakis, Craig Warren, Antonios Giannopoulos

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Abstract

General full-wave electromagnetic solvers, such as those utilizing the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, are computationally demanding for simulating practical GPR problems. We explore the performance of a near-real-time, forward modeling approach for GPR that is based on a machine learning (ML) architecture. To ease the process, we have developed a framework that is capable of generating these ML-based forward solvers automatically. The framework uses an innovative training method that combines a predictive dimensionality reduction technique and a large data set of modeled GPR responses from our FDTD simulation software, gprMax. The forward solver is parameterized for a specific GPR application, but the framework can be extended in a straightforward manner to different electromagnetic problems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 11th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2021
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665422536
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IWAGPR50767.2021.9843172
Publication status	Published - 2 Aug 2022
Event	11th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2021 - Valletta, Malta Duration: 1 Dec 2021 → 4 Dec 2021

Publication series

Name	International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR)
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	2687-7899

Conference

Conference	11th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2021
Country/Territory	Malta
City	Valletta
Period	1/12/21 → 4/12/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The project was funded via the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 programme. GSoC initiative is a global program focused on bringing student developers into open source software development. The source code for this project can be found at https://github.com/gprMax/gprMax/pull/294.

Keywords

Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI)
Machine Learning (ML)
Principle Component Analysis (PCA)
Random Forest
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting)

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Akhaury, U., Giannakis, I., Warren, C., & Giannopoulos, A. (2022). Machine Learning Based Forward Solver: An Automatic Framework in gprMax. In 2021 11th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2021 (International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR)). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IWAGPR50767.2021.9843172

Machine Learning Based Forward Solver: An Automatic Framework in gprMax. / Akhaury, Utsav; Giannakis, Iraklis; Warren, Craig et al.
2021 11th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. (International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR)).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

Akhaury, U, Giannakis, I, Warren, C & Giannopoulos, A 2022, Machine Learning Based Forward Solver: An Automatic Framework in gprMax. in 2021 11th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2021. International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 11th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2021, Valletta, Malta, 1/12/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/IWAGPR50767.2021.9843172

Akhaury U, Giannakis I, Warren C, Giannopoulos A. Machine Learning Based Forward Solver: An Automatic Framework in gprMax. In 2021 11th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2022. (International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR)). Epub 2022 Aug 2. doi: 10.1109/IWAGPR50767.2021.9843172

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