Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 52, Issue 1, 0106008(2025)

Pattern Recognition of Φ‑OTDR Signals Based on Markov Transition Field

Lang Mei1,2, Can Guo1,3, and Lei Liang1,4、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1National Engineering Research Center for Optical Fiber Sensing Technology and Network, Wuhan 430070, Hubei , China
  • 2Department of Physics, School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, Hubei , China
  • 3School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, Hubei , China
  • 4School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, Hubei , China
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    Figures & Tables(13)
    Image encoding process of Markov transition field
    Basic modules of MobileNetV2
    Impact of noise on MTF images. (a) Original signal and corresponding denoised signal; (b) MTF image of original signal; (c) MTF image of denoised signal
    Impact of number of quantile bins on MTF images. (a) Original knocking signal; (b) MTF image of knocking signal with Q=2; (c) MTF image of knocking signal with Q=5; (d) MTF image of knocking signal with Q=12
    Global and local features of MTF images. (a) Experimental signal; (b) MTF image corresponding to experimental signal
    Six types of signals and their corresponding MTF images. (a1)‒(f1) Background and signals of digging, knocking, watering, shaking, and walking; (a2)‒(f2) corresponding MTF images
    Training loss and validation accuracy of four different models. (a) Training loss; (b) validation accuracy
    Transfer learning
    Training loss and validation accuracy of MobileNetV2. (a) Training loss; (b) validation accuracy
    • Table 1. Φ-OTDR dataset

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      Table 1. Φ-OTDR dataset

      Type of eventsTraining set numberValidation set numberTotal
      Background23575892946
      Digging18835022385
      Knocking20245062530
      Watering21825462728
      Shaking19604902450
      Walking18024512253
      Total12208308415292
    • Table 2. Comparison of performance evaluation indicators for four models

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      Table 2. Comparison of performance evaluation indicators for four models

      ModelAccuracyPrecisionRecallF1 score
      MobileNetV295.195.094.994.9
      MobileNetV394.794.694.594.5
      EfficientNet-b094.494.394.194.2
      ShuffleNetV2-2.0X94.394.294.194.1
    • Table 3. Recognition performance of this method and comparison with those in literature

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      Table 3. Recognition performance of this method and comparison with those in literature

      ClassifierTypes of eventsPrecisionNARF1 score

      Time-spatial images + CNN20 with average accuracy of 94.0%

      Background98.54.297.1
      Digging89.17.290.9
      Knocking95.14.595.3
      Watering90.54.792.9
      Shaking97.62.697.5
      Walking92.013.789.1

      PSO-SVM24 with

      average accuracy of 95.6%

      Background99.399.7
      Digging95.893.9
      Knocking95.297.2
      Watering92.492.5
      Shaking93.493.9
      Walking97.396.1

      MTF + MobileNetV2 (our method) with

      average accuracy of 96.0%

      Background97.31.498.0
      Digging96.24.895.7
      Knocking96.83.896.5
      Watering94.87.193.8
      Shaking95.42.296.6
      Walking95.55.595.0
    • Table 4. Recognition speed of this method and comparison with those in literature

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      Table 4. Recognition speed of this method and comparison with those in literature

      ApproachTime consumed /sAccuracy /%
      Pre-processingRecognitionTotal
      YOLO270.043896.14
      SST+Resnet280.0996.74
      MLSTM-CNN290.181.021.2095.70
      GAF+CNN110.00490.57390.578897.67
      Our method0.17070.03400.204796.00
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    Paper Information

    Category: Fiber optics and optical communication

    Received: Jun. 28, 2024

    Accepted: Sep. 14, 2024

    Published Online: Jan. 20, 2025

    The Author Email: Lei Liang (l30l30@126.com)

    DOI:10.3788/CJL241014

    CSTR:32183.14.CJL241014

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