An Integrated Approach To Reduced Signature Target Recognition

The scientific results provided significant unification of theories from computer vision and statistical pattern recognition with physics-based models of ATR sensors, as well as extensions of mathematical signal processing techniques such as multiresolution representations to ATR relevant domains. The research has laid the foundation for many years of exploration of new approaches to ATR in reduced signature environments. The research has also developed important technologies to address future hard ATR problems that are of critical DoD interest. These problems include detection of buried objects such as plastic mines, or bunkers, classification of targets in difficult environments such as under tree, recognition of highly variable targets in complex environments, and integration of information from multiple sensors. These techniques are ideal for future DoD and Air Force capabilities based on the proliferation of sensors in order to achieve information dominance.