Abstract: The problem considered is the discrimination between natural and artificial seismic events, based on their waveform recording. We build a classification environment consists of several ensembles of neural networks trained on bootstrap sample sets, using various data representations and architectures. The integration of the different ensembles is made in a non-constant signal adaptive manner, using a posterior confidence measure based on the agreement (variance) within the ensembles. The proposed integrated classification machine achieved 92.1% correct classification on the seismic test data. Cross validation tests and comparisons indicate that such integration of a collection of ANN's ensembles is a robust way for handling high dimensional problems with a complex non-stationary signal space as in the current seismic classification problem.
Index Terms:
geophysical signal processing; seismology; pattern classification; data structures; neural nets; seismic waveform classification; neural networks; ensembles; bootstrap sample sets; data representations; nonstationary signal space
Citation:
Y. Shimshoni, N. Intrator, "Classification of Seismic Waveforms by Integrating Ensembles of Neural Networks," nicrosp, pp.0368, 1996 International Workshop on Neural Networks for Identification, Control, Robotics, and Signal/Image Processing (NICROSP '96), 1996