Final Report : ATR Using Multiview Morphing Report Title

In 2005, reviewed current research literature in view morphing and matching for single views, and discussed a feature based approach to sparse view morphing that also shows promise for compression of the model data corpus. Worked on a new Bayesian approach for the problem from a mid-level segmentation problem. We obtained good results for feature-based morphing, as well as preliminary demonstration of the novel object representation. In 2006, we completed work in automatic target recognition using video. Introduced a novel approach for adaptive video registration. Formulated the image-registration problem as a region-partitioning problem. Developed an approach for video-based object recognition which doesn’t require any knowledge of camera position or physical location of images with respect to each other. We exploited motion continuity in video and extend our algorithm to perform matching based on video input. In 2007, we developed a novel method for object class detection based on 3D object modeling. We worked on object recognition based on correlation using morphing technique. We used two new methods for synthesizing new views of a known object so that the occluded features of the object can be inferred and incorporated into the recognition process. (a) Papers published in peer-reviewed journals (N/A for none) Jiangjian Xiao and Mubarak Shah, "Tri-view morphing", Computer Vision Image Understanding, Volume 96, Issue 3 , Pages 345-366, December 2004. List of papers submitted or published that acknowledge ARO support during this reporting period. List the papers, including journal references, in the following categories: (b) Papers published in non-peer-reviewed journals or in conference proceedings (N/A for none) 1.00 Number of Papers published in peer-reviewed journals: Number of Papers published in non peer-reviewed journals: (c) Presentations 0.00 Number of Presentations: 0.00 Non Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceeding publications (other than abstracts): Number of Non Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceeding publications (other than abstracts): 0 Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceeding publications (other than abstracts): Jun Xie, Min Hu, and Mubarak Shah, "An Object Recognition Framework Using Unfolding Warping", International Conference on Pattern Recognition, December 2008. Abhijit Mahalanobis, Philip Berkowitz, Mubarak Shah, Richard Sims, "View Morphing using Linear Prediction of Sub-Space Features", 41st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 4-7, 2007. Pingkun Yan, Saad M. Khan, and Mubarak Shah, "3D Model based Object Class Recognition in Arbitrary Views, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, October, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Humera Noor, Shahid H. Mirza,Yaser Sheikh, Amit Jain, Mubarak Shah, "Model Generation for Video based Object Recognition", ACM MM 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. J. Xiao and M. Shah, "Automatic target recognition using multiview morphing", SPIE Automatic Target Recognition XIV Conference, 12-16 April 2004. (d) Manuscripts Number of Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceeding publications (other than abstracts): 5 Number of Manuscripts: 0.00 Number of Inventions: