Use of Wavelets to Extract Structural Features from Images.

Abstract

Summarizes work performed by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace on a contract under the ARPA University-Industry ATR Initiative. The focus is on a preliminary investigation into the use of wavelets to extract local feature points to be used for matching 2-D and 3-D structure in multiple images. The approach is to detect dominant local discontinuities (i.e., point features, corners, curvature discontinuities) as a function of wavelet coefficients.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 17, 1997
Accession Number
ADA324901

Entities

People

  • James Meany
  • Steven Schwartz

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Coefficients
  • Contracts
  • Curvature
  • Differential Equations
  • Discontinuities
  • Extraction
  • Feature Extraction
  • Geometric Forms
  • Horizontal Orientation
  • Lines (Geometry)
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Target Recognition
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Visual Inspection
  • Wavelet Transforms

Readers

  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Structural Dynamics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects