High-Resolution Bathymetric Reconstruction From Sidescan Sonar With Deep Neural Networks

06/15/2022
by   Yiping Xie, et al.
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We propose a novel data-driven approach for high-resolution bathymetric reconstruction from sidescan. Sidescan sonar (SSS) intensities as a function of range do contain some information about the slope of the seabed. However, that information must be inferred. Additionally, the navigation system provides the estimated trajectory, and normally the altitude along this trajectory is also available. From these we obtain a very coarse seabed bathymetry as an input. This is then combined with the indirect but high-resolution seabed slope information from the sidescan to estimate the full bathymetry. This sparse depth could be acquired by single-beam echo sounder, Doppler Velocity Log (DVL), other bottom tracking sensors or bottom tracking algorithm from sidescan itself. In our work, a fully convolutional network is used to estimate the depth contour and its aleatoric uncertainty from the sidescan images and sparse depth in an end-to-end fashion. The estimated depth is then used together with the range to calculate the point's 3D location on the seafloor. A high-quality bathymetric map can be reconstructed after fusing the depth predictions and the corresponding confidence measures from the neural networks. We show the improvement of the bathymetric map gained by using sparse depths with sidescan over estimates with sidescan alone. We also show the benefit of confidence weighting when fusing multiple bathymetric estimates into a single map.

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