Pattern Recognition Device with Adaptive Preprocessing and Classification.
Abstract
A program to investigate the application of bionics techniques to the solution of aerial photography pattern recognition problems has been completed. The investigation included development of a unique circuit which will have application in pattern recognition and trainable system. Called an adaptive filter, this circuit is a band-pass filter which can be trained to adjust its center frequency in accordance with externally generated training signals. A bank of these filters was incorporated in the preprocessing stage of a breadboard pattern recognition system, and served to extract frequency information from an input video signal. Performance of this system was evaluated for the problem of terrain recognition from single-frame panchromatic aerial photography. The photography was converted to a suitable time-varying video signal by a flying-spot scanner. A training strategy enabled the system to refine its processing operations in order to improve classification performance with time. Successful performance of the system was demonstrated in a series of classification tests involving over 1900 terrain samples. Recognition accuracies ranged from 64.5 percent to 95 percent.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0714576
Entities
People
- J. M. Idelsohn