The Development of the Automatic Target Recognition System for the UGV/RSTA LADAR

Abstract

This report describes the authors' initial work under ARPA Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Demo II Program in the reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition(RSTA) area. The task is to develop the automatic target recognition (ATR) system that will process the imagery from the RSTA laser radar (ladar). A real-time demonstration of this capability is scheduled for the "Demo II" of 1996. All major components of this end-to-end ATR system are discussed, and more details are provided for critical elements that have been built and tested so far. A major topic of interest is the use of sets of azimuth-dependent functional templates and functional template correlation forward-looking ladar data. Other optics are the use of height-limited verticality as an interest image for focusing attention and of the Hough transform for getting a preliminary estimate of target orientation. Because the RSTA ladar remains to be procured and built, the report describes also the alternate sources of data that are begin used to develop and test the system elements built to date.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 21, 1995
Accession Number
ADA294090

Entities

People

  • Dan E. Dudgeon
  • Jacques G. Verly
  • Richard T. Lacoss

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Automatic
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Image Processing
  • Laser Radar
  • Recognition
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Target Acquisition
  • Target Recognition
  • Unmanned Ground Systems
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Directed Energy