End-to-End AI for Distributed Fiber Optics Sensing: Eliminating Intermediate Processing via Raw Data Learning

Publication Date: 10/1/2025

Event: ECOC 2025 – The 51st European Conference on Optical Communication

Reference: Tu.04.08.4: 1-4, 2025

Authors: Zhuocheng Jiang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yue Tian, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yuheng Chen, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yangmin Ding, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Sarper Ozharar, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

Abstract: For the first time, we present an end-to-end AI framework for data analysis in distributed fiber optic sensing. The proposed model eliminates the need for optical phase computation and outperforms traditional data processing pipelines, achieving over 96% recognition accuracy on a diverse acoustic dataset.

Publication Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11263067