Focusing on targets through exclusion

Walter J. Mueller; James A. Olson; Andrew Martin; John H. Hinchman

doi:10.1117/12.46472

1 August 1991 Focusing on targets through exclusion

Walter J. Mueller, James A. Olson, Andrew Martin, John H. Hinchman

Proceedings Volume 1472, Image Understanding and the Man-Machine Interface III; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.46472
Event: Orlando '91, 1991, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Automatic target recognition (ATR) schemes attempt to locate and classify given target objects. Successful approaches either require substantial computing power to correlate target models with all pixels or use a search strategy to minimize the amount of pixels considered as candidates. The search refinement approach to ATR can be accomplished by continually examining various resolutions of the data sets for candidate objects or through a technique of excluding areas that could not contain the object. This paper describes an approach for excluding areas which are identified a priori as 'clutter' and should not contain the areas of interest.

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Walter J. Mueller, James A. Olson, Andrew Martin, and John H. Hinchman "Focusing on targets through exclusion", Proc. SPIE 1472, Image Understanding and the Man-Machine Interface III, (1 August 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.46472

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