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19 May 2005 Statistical analysis of spin images for differentiation of wheeled and tracked objects
Estille Whittenberger, Alexis Rivera-Rios, Donald Waagen, Alex Takessian, Miguel Ordaz, John Costello, Donald Hulsey
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Abstract
Spin images originated within the robotics group at Carnegie Mellon University and are representations of 3-space surface regions. This representation provides a means for surface matching that is invariant to rigid body rotations and translations while being robust in the presence of 3D image noise, clutter, and surface occlusion. Of particular interest is the viability of using spin images to differentiate between two object classes in 3D imagery where there is significant intra-class diversity, e.g. to differentiate between wheeled and tracked vehicles. The specificity of spin map representations in differentiation of wheeled and tracked vehicles is statistically characterized. Using synthetic imagery of various wheeled and tracked vehicles, the class separability of wheeled vs. tracked vehicle spin image sets is nonparametrically quantified via entropic characterization as well as the Friedman-Rafsky two-sample test statistic. Additionally, class separability is analyzed in lower dimensional feature spaces generated via the Hotelling transform as well as a random projection method, comparing and contrasting the spin map class differentiation in the original and transformed data sets.
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Estille Whittenberger, Alexis Rivera-Rios, Donald Waagen, Alex Takessian, Miguel Ordaz, John Costello, and Donald Hulsey "Statistical analysis of spin images for differentiation of wheeled and tracked objects", Proc. SPIE 5807, Automatic Target Recognition XV, (19 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.603717
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KEYWORDS
Principal component analysis

3D image processing

Statistical analysis

Error analysis

LIDAR

Distance measurement

Detection and tracking algorithms

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