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However, due to the large amount of GPR data, traditional manual interpretation is time-consuming and laborious. To address this problem, an efficient underground target detection method for urban roads based on neural networks is proposed in this paper. First, robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is used to suppress the clutter in the B-scan image. Then, three time-domain statistics of each A-scan signal are calculated as its features, and one backpropagation (BP) neural network is adopted to recognize A-scan signals to obtain the horizontal regions of targets. Next, the fusion and deletion (FAD) algorithm is used to further optimize the horizontal regions of targets. Finally, three time-domain statistics of each segmented A-scan signal in the horizontal regions of targets are extracted as the features, and another BP neural network is employed to recognize the segmented A-scan signals to obtain the vertical regions of targets. The proposed method is verified with both simulation and real GPR data. 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