Multimodal Threat Evaluation in Simulated Wargaming Environments

Pierre Vanvolsem, Koen Boeckx, Xavier Neyt

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Abstract

Threat evaluation offers significant operational advantages in military and non-military contexts by reducing risks to personnel and enhancing the situational awareness. The accurate evaluation of threats, requires a comprehensive analysis of the behaviors of the agents. This paper presents a supervised learning approach to predict the intentions of agents in a simulated military environment, focusing on binary classification to determine whether an agent poses a threat or not. The model integrates multimodal data, including spatial information from a grid-based map and features related to agents, such as velocity and weapon possession. The temporal aspect of agents is considered. However, this yields limited improvements in prediction accuracy. The model is evaluated using self-generated wargaming data, and results show that deep learning approaches leveraging spatial-temporal data outperform traditional methods like Random Forest models, achieving an AUC score of 0.84. The proposed approach demonstrates the potential of using multimodal data fusion for improving threat identification. Future work will focus on expanding the diversity of scenarios and further enhancing the realism of data generation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2024
EditorsWei Ding, Chang-Tien Lu, Fusheng Wang, Liping Di, Kesheng Wu, Jun Huan, Raghu Nambiar, Jundong Li, Filip Ilievski, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Xiaohua Hu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3322-3328
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9798350362480
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2024 - Washington, United States
Duration: 15 Dec 202418 Dec 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2024

Conference

Conference2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period15/12/2418/12/24

Keywords

  • Multimodal scene understanding
  • Threat evaluation
  • Wargaming simulation

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