Joint Source-Environment Adaptation of Data-Driven Underwater Acoustic Source Ranging Based on Model Uncertainty

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23258v1
• Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:17 GMT
• Title: Joint Source-Environment Adaptation of Data-Driven Underwater Acoustic Source Ranging Based on Model Uncertainty
• Authors: Dariush Kari, Hari Vishnu, Andrew C. Singer,
• Abstract summary: Adapting pre-trained deep learning models to new and unknown environments is a difficult challenge in underwater acoustic localization.<n>We show that although pre-trained models have performance that suffers from mismatch between the training and test data, they generally exhibit a higher implied uncertainty'' in environments where there is more mismatch.<n>We use an efficient method to quantify model prediction uncertainty, and an innovative approach to adapt a pre-trained model to unseen underwater environments at test time.
• Score: 4.2671394819888455
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Adapting pre-trained deep learning models to new and unknown environments is a difficult challenge in underwater acoustic localization. We show that although pre-trained models have performance that suffers from mismatch between the training and test data, they generally exhibit a higher ``implied uncertainty'' in environments where there is more mismatch. Leveraging this notion of implied uncertainty, we partition the test samples into more certain and less certain sets, and implement an estimation method using the certain samples to improve the labeling for uncertain samples, which helps to adapt the model. We use an efficient method to quantify model prediction uncertainty, and an innovative approach to adapt a pre-trained model to unseen underwater environments at test time. This eliminates the need for labeled data from the target environment or the original training data. This adaptation is enhanced by integrating an independent estimate based on the received signal energy. We validate the approach extensively using real experimental data, as well as synthetic data consisting of model-generated signals with real ocean noise. The results demonstrate significant improvements in model prediction accuracy, underscoring the potential of the method to enhance underwater acoustic localization in diverse, noisy, and unknown environments.

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