AASERT: Non-Cooperative Target Recognition

Abstract

This final report summarizes the accomplishments of the AASERT research supported by the AFOSR Grant F4962O-96-l-O264, entitled, Non-Cooperative Target Recognition. This Grant supported the Ph.D. dissertation of Dr. William Phillips, who after graduation returned to Northrop-Grumman Corporation. He is on leave at DARPA managing a research program on advanced architectures for image and signal processing. This research effort supported the design and analysis of novel algorithms for the exploitation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. The algorithms developed under this effort facilitate the monitoring of vehicular activities, which is one of the most important SAR image exploitation problems in military applications. Several of the primary components of an exploitation system to monitor such activities have been addressed, including high-speed target detection using parallel processors, site model construction, site-model based false alarm reduction and change detection. Experiments with TESAR and MSTAR data have been conducted.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 29, 2000
Accession Number
ADA382845

Entities

People

  • Rama Chellappa

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Change Detection
  • Computer Vision
  • Construction
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • False Alarms
  • Military Applications
  • Object Recognition
  • Parallel Processors
  • Recognition
  • Signal Processing
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Target Detection
  • Target Recognition
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.