Accession Number:

ADA109556

Title:

Understanding Features, Objects and Backgrounds

Descriptive Note:

Semi-annual rept. 1 Apr 1980-31 Jan 1981

Corporate Author:

MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1981-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

This project is concerned with the study of advanced techniques for the analysis of reconnaissance imagery. The current phase of the project is concerned with three principal areas a comparative analysis of segmentation techniques applied to FLIR imagery b development of an inference-based approach to target detection on FLIR imagery and c optical flow analysis of time-varying imagery.

Descriptors:

• *ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• *IMAGE PROCESSING
• *PATTERN RECOGNITION
• AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE
• ALGORITHMS
• CLASSIFICATION
• EDGES
• FIGURE OF MERIT
• FORWARD LOOKING INFRARED SYSTEMS
• GRAY SCALE
• HIERARCHIES
• SEGMENTED
• THRESHOLD EFFECTS

Subject Categories:

• Human Factors Engineering and Man Machine Systems
• Bionics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE