24th June 2025
Editor in Chief
Journal of Seismology
Subject: Submission of manuscript for peer review and possible publication in “Journal of
Seismology”
Dear Editor,
I am enclosing herewith a manuscript entitled “Improving Seismic Signal Classification of
Different Ground Activities with Advanced AI and Signal Processing Techniques” for peer
review and possible publication in Journal of Seismology.
This paper investigates the application of advanced time-frequency analysis techniques for
detecting ground intrusion activities using continuous seismic signals. Specifically, we employ the
Variational Mode Decomposition–Hilbert Transform (VMD-HT) and Empirical Mode
Decomposition–Hilbert Transform (EMD-HT) methodologies to effectively extract key features
from seismic data. We applied various machine learning approaches, including linear models,
decision-based models, ensemble methods, and distance-based models, to classify the extracted
features.
Our findings demonstrate that ensemble methods consistently outperform competing approaches,
particularly XGBoost, which achieved an accuracy of 97.8% with the VMD-HT technique and
95.6% with EMD-HT, along with high precision, recall, and F1-scores. The Random Forest
classifier was the second-best performer, achieving 97% accuracy.
Key contributions of the manuscript include:
Development of a self-collected continuous seismic dataset covering both background
noise and target ground intrusion activities.
Introduction of VMD-HT for seismic activity detection and its comparative evaluation
against EMD-HT, showing superior classification performance.
Systematic analysis of classifiers such as SVM, Decision Trees, Random Forest, and
XGBoost for ground intrusion detection using continuous seismic data.
An integrated algorithm for continuous seismic signal monitoring, contributing to
enhanced security and surveillance systems.
With the submission of this manuscript, I would like to undertake that the above-mentioned
manuscript has not been published elsewhere, accepted for publication elsewhere or under editorial
review for publication elsewhere. All authors have approved the manuscript and agree with
submission to Journal of Seismology.
Please address all correspondence to:
Dr. Mohsin Jadoon
School of Computing Sciences
PAF-IAST, Haripur, Pakistan
E-mail: mohsin.khan@spcai.paf-iast.edu.pk
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