Effective direction of arrival estimation of gunshot signals from an in-flight unmanned aerial vehicle

Juliano G. C. Ribeiro; Felipe G. Serrenho; José A. Apolinário Jr.; António L. L. Ramos

doi:10.1117/12.2307657

30 April 2018 Effective direction of arrival estimation of gunshot signals from an in-flight unmanned aerial vehicle

Juliano G. C. Ribeiro, Felipe G. Serrenho, José A. Apolinário Jr., António L. L. Ramos

Proceedings Volume 10648, Automatic Target Recognition XXVIII; 106480H (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2307657
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2018, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Spotting a shooter from a drone has been the subject of great interest lately due to its many applications in the fields of defense and security and law enforcement. Using a drone can be an effective way to detect potential threats in many real-life scenarios. Nevertheless, acoustic signals recorded from a drone usually exhibit a very low SNR, mainly due to the distance to the source and the proximity of the sensors to the propellers. This is a serious limiting factor and, therefore, the use of signal enhancement techniques is required. This work addresses the problem of determining the Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) of the muzzle blast, captured using a planar microphone array mounted on a commercial DJI PHANTOM 4 drone in flight. This new shooter localization method that relies solely on detecting and estimating the DoA of the muzzle blast. However, the typical low SNR in this scenario requires the use of preprocessing techniques, such as signal clipping and median filtering, to enhance the signal of interest (muzzle blast). In addition, we employ a recently introduced improved data selection DoA estimation method suitable for gunshot signals recorded from a low to medium altitude mobile aerial platform. Positive results achieved indicate that this approach is effective and of practical interest.

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Juliano G. C. Ribeiro, Felipe G. Serrenho, José A. Apolinário Jr., and António L. L. Ramos "Effective direction of arrival estimation of gunshot signals from an in-flight unmanned aerial vehicle", Proc. SPIE 10648, Automatic Target Recognition XXVIII, 106480H (30 April 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2307657

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