TY - JOUR N2 - Radial basis function neural networks (RBF NNs) are one of the most useful tools in the classification of the sonar targets. Despite many abilities of RBF NNs, low accuracy in classification, entrapment in local minima, and slow convergence rate are disadvantages of these networks. In order to overcome these issues, the sine-cosine algorithm (SCA) has been used to train RBF NNs in this work. To evaluate the designed classifier, two benchmark underwater sonar classification problems were used. Also, an experimental underwater target classification was developed to practically evaluate the merits of the RBFbased classifier in dealing with high-dimensional real world problems. In order to have a comprehensive evaluation, the classifier is compared with the gradient descent (GD), gravitational search algorithm (GSA), genetic algorithm (GA), and Kalman filter (KF) algorithms in terms of entrapment in local minima, the accuracy of the classification, and the convergence rate. The results show that the proposed classifier provides a better performance than other compared classifiers as it classifies the sonar datasets 2.72% better than the best benchmark classifier, on average. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/118266/PDF/aoa.2020.135281.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/118266 PY - 2020 IS - No 4 EP - 764 DO - 10.24425/aoa.2020.135281 KW - classifiers KW - radial basis function neural network KW - sine-cosine algorithm KW - sonar A1 - Wang, Yixuan A1 - Yuan, LiPing A1 - Khishe, Mohammad A1 - Moridi, Alaveh A1 - Mohammadzade, Fallah PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Committee on Acoustics VL - vol. 45 DA - 2020.12.28 T1 - Training RBF NN Using Sine-Cosine Algorithm for Sonar Target Classification SP - 753 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/118266 T2 - Archives of Acoustics ER -