An Efficient Target Extraction Technique For Laser Radar Imagery

A. Omar Aboutalib; Thanh Luu

doi:10.1117/12.960337

5 September 1989 An Efficient Target Extraction Technique For Laser Radar Imagery

A. Omar Aboutalib, Thanh Luu

Proceedings Volume 1096, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1989; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960337
Event: SPIE 1989 Technical Symposium on Aerospace Sensing, 1989, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated the extraction of ground targets from background and clutter using CO2 LASER RADAR (LADAR) imagery. Target extraction or segmentation is a critical step in the Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) process. In this paper, we investigated the utility of various types of heuristics such as the diversity in the expected reflectance, range variations and size between military targets and natural objects to effectively extract military targets. We devised a computational efficient recursive algorithm based upon state-space technique to extract target from background. The recursive nature of the algorithm and its parallel concurrent processing will allow for real-time implementation. Computer simulation results are also presented.

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A. Omar Aboutalib and Thanh Luu "An Efficient Target Extraction Technique For Laser Radar Imagery", Proc. SPIE 1096, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1989, (5 September 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960337

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