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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Threat Assessment of Buried Objects Using Single-Frequency Microwave Measurements.

İbrahim Halil Bayat, Gülçin Yarimay, Semih Doğu, İbrahim Akduman

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

İbrahim Halil BayatElectronics and Communication Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0003-3265-866X
Gülçin YarimayElectronics and Communication Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey.ORCID 0009-0007-2014-4350
Semih DoğuElectronics and Communication Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-5329-6437
İbrahim AkdumanElectronics and Communication Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-5769-6032

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study presents a lightweight neural network model integrated with a microwave-based detection system for identifying buried objects. The proposed model is trained and tested exclusively on real-world measurements, enhancing its practical relevance and robustness. The system utilizes 16 × 16 scattering parameter (S-parameter) measurements, transformed into a compact 256-dimensional feature vector that captures the microwave response of subsurface materials. This representation enables a neural network architecture with reduced computational complexity while maintaining high accuracy. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that the proposed model achieves an accuracy of 99.83%, an F1 score of 0.989, and a recall of 0.979 in distinguishing hazardous from non-hazardous (safe) objects, outperforming baseline CNN, DRN, and EfficientNet architectures. These results confirm the suitability of the approach in defense and security applications.

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buried object detectionmicrowave systemsneural network

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PMID40871994
PMCPMC12390294

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