Acoustic-to-Hyper-Spectral: Hyper-Spectral Image Construction from Frequency Spectrums Through Simulated Annealing (Student Abstract)

Abstract This abstract presents a simulated annealing based approach that constructs hyper-spectral images from the frequency spectrums of a distributed acoustic sensing system and iteratively improves them through the training of learnable filters. The aim is to construct an image that represents features of signals from events while repressing noise. Hyper-spectral images are specifically created for downstream computer vision tasks such as object detection. Hyper-spectral images are images with more than three channels that are derived from a frequency spectrum to obtain the spectrum for each image pixel. Simulated annealing is used to train the filters to automatically select frequencies and bin them into frequency bands. Each frequency band is mapped into an image channel. We fully integrate our filtering method with an object detection network so that filters are trained in conjunction with the neural network. The detection model serves as both the measure and the selector. Our simulated annealing approach significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art methods by a margin of 22%. Limitations include a dependency on randomness and excluding parts of the search space prematuraly due to the design of the local moves.