Automatic Target Recognition with Laser Signs

Automatic target recognition in laser radar imagery

This paper presents an Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) system for laser radar (LADAR) imagery, designed to classify objects at multiple levels of discrimination (target detection, classification, and recognition) from single LADAR images. Segmentation is performed in both the range and non-range LADAR channels and results combined to increase object detection rate or decrease false positive ...

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 ...