8–12 Sept 2026
Europe/Vienna timezone

Physics-Aware Learnable Filtering for Vehicle Detection in Distributed Acoustic Sensing

FA2026/269
9 Sept 2026, 16:40
20m
Galerie C (Messe Congress Graz)

Galerie C

Messe Congress Graz

A13 Physical Acoustics and Ultrasound A13.10 Acousto-Optics and Distributed Acoustic Sensing

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Sasan Farhadi (IGMS)

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Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) enables continuous monitoring of traffic activity over long distances. However, noise contamination and the lack of labeled data limit the scalability of existing approaches. This study proposes a framework that integrates a physics-aware learnable filtering module with a data-driven refinement strategy for vehicle detection in DAS signals. The filtered outputs are used to generate and progressively improve proxy labels, enabling robust segmentation without manual annotations. The extracted vehicle regions are further utilized for speed estimation. Results on real-world data demonstrate stable vehicle detection under noisy conditions and reliable speed estimation performance. The findings highlight the potential of combining physics-informed filtering with adaptive learning for scalable DAS-based traffic monitoring.

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