AiTR Standards: Common Data Format

Aided/Automatic Target Recognition (AiTR/ATR), referred to as AiTR in this document, describes a broad range of automated or assisted exploitation functions, including automated and semi-automated detection, false alarm mitigation, classification, recognition, and identification. AiTR has been in development since the 1970s but has recently seen a renewed interest due to advances in commercially available high-performance processing devices, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). An ongoing challenge with AiTR systems is the dependency on vast amounts of labeled training data. The importance of high-quality training data on targets of interest cannot be overstated. It is a key factor in the success or failure of AiTR algorithms.