Hidden Markov modelling for SAR automatic target recognition

This paper discusses the application of hidden Markov models (HMMs) to solve the translational and rotational invariant automatic target recognition (TRIATR) problem associated with SAR imagery. This approach is based on a cascade of these stages: preprocessing, feature extraction and selection, and...

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Hauptverfasser: Nilubol, C., Pham, Q.H., Mersereau, R.M., Smith, M.J.T., Clements, M.A.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This paper discusses the application of hidden Markov models (HMMs) to solve the translational and rotational invariant automatic target recognition (TRIATR) problem associated with SAR imagery. This approach is based on a cascade of these stages: preprocessing, feature extraction and selection, and classification. Preprocessing and feature extraction and selection involve successive applications of extraction operations from measurements of the Radon transform of target chips. The features which are invariant to changes in rotation, position and shifts, although not to changes in scale are optimized through the use of feature selection techniques. The classification stage successively takes as its inputs the multidimensional multiple observation sequences, parameterizes them statistically using continuous density models to capture target and background appearance variability, and thus results in the TRIATR-HMMs. Experimental results have demonstrated that the recognition rate is as high as 99% over both the training set and the testing set.
ISSN:1520-6149
2379-190X
DOI:10.1109/ICASSP.1998.675451