Automatic detection and recognition of targets by means of passive IR sensors suffer from limitations due to lack of sufficient contrast between the targets and their background, and among the facets of a target. In this paper the results of a suite of polarization-sensitive automatic target detection and recognition algorithms on sets of simulated and real polarimetric IR imagery are presented. A custom designed polarimetric IR (PIR) imaging sensor is used for collecting real polarimetric target data-three of the four Stokes parameters under a variety of conditions. Then a set of novel algorithms are designed and tested that use the target and background Stokes parameters for detection, segmentation and classification of targets. The empirical performance results are obtained in terms of the probabilities of detection, false alarm rate, segmentation accuracy, and recognition probabilities as functions of number of pixels on target, aspect and depression angles and under several background conditions (clutter densities) on the polarimetric and nonpolarimetric data. These results show that a noticeable improvement over the non-polarimetric ATR can be achieved.


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    Title :

    Application of a passive polarimetric infrared sensor in improved detection and classification of targets


    Contributors:
    Sadjadi, F.A. (author) / Chun, C.S. (author)


    Publication date :

    1998


    Size :

    19 Seiten, 12 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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