SEMI-SUPERVISED GAUSSIAN MIXTURE VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER FOR PULSE SHAPE DISCRIMINATION

Abdullah Abdulaziz, Jianxin Zhou, Angela Di Fulvio, Yoann Altmann, Stephen McLaughlin

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

We address the problem of pulse shape discrimination (PSD) for radiation sources characterization by leveraging a Gaussian mixture variational autoencoder (GMVAE). When using PSD to characterize radiation sources, the number of emission sources and types of pulses to be classified is usually known. Yet, the creation of labeled data can be challenging for some classes as it requires expensive expert annotation. In this context, GMVAE can learn the distinct features of pulses from only unlabeled data. We show that classification accuracy can be further enhanced by adopting a semi-supervised GMVAE with auxiliary loss functions when labeled data are available. The preliminary results on two datasets with different number of classes suggest superior performance of GMVAE compared to other classifiers such as Gaussian mixture model (GMM) for unsupervised and semi-supervised learning and random forest for supervised learning.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3538-3542
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781665405409
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Virtual, Online, Singapore
Duration: May 23 2022May 27 2022

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CityVirtual, Online
Period5/23/225/27/22

Keywords

  • Gaussian mixture variational autoencoder
  • Semi-supervised classification
  • pulse shape discrimination

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'SEMI-SUPERVISED GAUSSIAN MIXTURE VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODER FOR PULSE SHAPE DISCRIMINATION'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this