Intelligent Electronic Navigational Aids: A New Approach

Abstract

The smart management of clutter is a key component in designing intelligent, next-generation user interfaces and electronic displays. Intelligent devices can enhance a user's situational awareness under adverse conditions. In this paper we present two approaches to assist a user with target detection and clutter analysis, and we suggest how these tools could be integrated with an electronic chart system. The first tool, an information fusion technique, is a multiple-view generalization of AdaBoost, which can assist a user in finding a target partially obscured by display clutter. The second technique clusters geospatial features on an electronic display and determines a meaningful measure of display clutter. The clutter metric correlates with preliminary, subjective, clutter rankings. The metric can be used to warn a user if display clutter is a potential hazard for his performance. We compare the performance of the proposed techniques with recent classifier fusion strategies on synthetic and real data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA498488

Entities

People

  • Costin Barbu
  • Geary Layne
  • Maura Lohrenz

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aerial Photographs
  • Air Traffic
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Bomber Aircraft
  • Classification
  • Clustering
  • Data Sets
  • Images
  • Information Science
  • Kernel Functions
  • Lighthouses
  • Machine Learning
  • Navigational Aids
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics