A Multichannel Canonical Correlation Analysis Feature Extraction with Application to Buried Underwater Target Classification

Multichannel canonical correlation analysis (MCCA) is used in this paper for feature extraction from multiple sonar returns off of buried underwater objects using data collected by the new generation buried object scanning sonar (BOSS) system. Comparisons are made between the classification results of features extracted by the proposed algorithm and those extracted by the two-channel canonical correlation analysis (CCA) algorithm. This study compares different feature extraction and classification algorithms, and the results are presented in terms of confusion matrices. The results show that MCCA yields higher correct classification rates than CCA while reducing the classifier´s structural complexity.