AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION OF COMPLEX INTERNAL STRUCTURE

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

Video-based Automatic Target Recognition

We present an approach for vehicle classification in IR video sequences by integrating detection, tracking and recognition. The method has two steps. First, the moving target is automatically detected using a detection algorithm. Next, we perform simultaneous tracking and recognition using an appearance-model based particle filter. The tracking result is evaluated at each frame. Low confidence ...

Pattern - Theoretic Foundations of Automatic Target Recognition

This effort advanced the art of applying Grenander's pattern theory to automatic target recognition (ATR) problems. We extended jump-diffusion ATR algorithms to accommodate unknown infrared camera calibration effects and include more stable diffusion procedures for pose refinement, and developed flexible shape models to accommodate clutter. We also developed performance bounds on estimation and...