3D automatic target recognition for future LIDAR missiles

Automatic Aircraft Target Recognition

This work proposes a new automatic target classifier, based on a combined neural networks’ system, by ISAR image processing. The novelty introduced in our work is twofold. We first present a novel automatic classification procedure, and then we discuss an improved multimedia processing of ISAR images for automatic object detection. The classifier, composed by a combination of 20 feed-forward ar...

Automatic Target Recognition

This paper describes the acceleration of an infrared automatic target recognition (IR ATR) application with a co-processor board that contains multiple eld programmable gate array (FPGA) chips. Template and pixel level parallelism is exploited in an FPGA design for the bottleneck portion of the application. The implementation of this design achieved a speedup of 21 compared to running on the ho...

Automatic Target Recognition

Pose Estimation for SAR Automatic Target Recognition

This paper explores statistically pose estimation in SAR ATR. Based on our proposed method of maximizing mutual information, further experiments are conducted by using the new MSTAR/ IU Database. Different pose estimator topologies and training criteria are also employed. Experimental results show that our proposed method reduces the average pose estimation error to within 10 degrees of the tru...

Neural networks for automatic target recognition

Abslract--Many applications reported in artificial neural networks are associated with military problems. This paper reviews concepts associated with the processing o f military data to f ind and recognize targets----automatic target recognition ( A TR ). A general-purpose automatic target recognition system does not exist. The work presented here is demonstrated on military data, but it can on...