Case-Based Sonogram Classification

Abstract

This report replicates and extends results reported by Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) personnel on the automatic classification of sonar images. They used novel case-based reasoning systems in their empirical studies, but did not obtain comparative analyses using standard classification algorithms. Therefore, the quality of NAWC results were unknown. We replicated the NAWC studies and also tested several other classifiers (i.e., both case-based and otherwise) from the machine learning literature. These comparisons and their ramifications are detailed in this report. Next, we investigated Fala and Walker's two suggestions for future work (i.e., on combining their similarity functions and on an alternative case representation). Finally, we describe several ways to incorporate additional domain-specific knowledge when applying case-based classifiers to similar tasks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 31, 1994
Accession Number
ADA275539

Entities

People

  • David Aha
  • Patrick Harrison

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Classification
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Science
  • Data Sets
  • Information Science
  • Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Recognition
  • Standards
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Vision.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy