Robust Recognition of Ship Types from an Infrared Silhouette
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Authors
Alves, Jorge
Herman, Jessica
Rowe, Neil C.
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2004-06
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June 2004
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
Accurate identification of unknown contacts crucial in military intelligence. Automated systems that quickly and
accurately determine the identity of a contact could be a benefit in backing up electronic-signals identification
methods. This work reports two experimental systems for ship classification from infrared FLIR images. In an
edge-histogram approach, we used the histogram of the binned distribution of observed straight edge segments of the
ship image. Some simple tests had a classification success rate of 80% on silhouettes. In a more comprehensive
neural-network approach, we calculated scale-invariant moments of a silhouette and used them as input to a neural
network. We trained the network on several thousand perspectives of a wire-frame model of the outline of each of
five ship classes. We obtained 70% accuracy with detailed tested on real infrared images but performance was more
robust than with the edge-histogram approach.
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This paper appeared in the Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, San Diego, CA, June
2004.
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Computer Science (CS)
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supported by the Naval Postgraduate School
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funds provided by the Chief of Naval Research
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Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, San Diego, CA, June
2004.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.