Correlation Based Target Location and Identification

Abstract

Correlation was investigated as a technique for locating and identifying visible light terrain board images of tanks, airplanes, and trucks. A correlator was built which utilizes the Fast Fourier Transform. The 180 images in the image set were correlated in both the raw form and after pre-processing via energy normalization and local energy normalization. The correlation of the raw images led to development of quantitative and heuristic rules for possible inclusion in a rule based expert system. The correlation of the local energy normalized images resulted in a 100 percent target location rate and can be used as a baseline model based vision system with which other techniques can compare. ... Computer vision, Correlation, Fast fourier transform, Image processing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA259003

Entities

People

  • Richard A. Wenzel

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Automated Target Recognition
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Correlators
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Fast Fourier Transforms
  • Fourier Transformation
  • Image Processing
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Recognition
  • Target Recognition
  • Two Dimensional
  • Visible Spectra

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Vision.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference