Pose and class estimation of stationary ground vehicles using a scale augmented parameter set

Vishal C. Ravindra; Venkatesh K. Madyastha; Girija Gopalratnam; Marco Guerriero

doi:10.1117/12.898028

29 September 2011 Pose and class estimation of stationary ground vehicles using a scale augmented parameter set

Vishal C. Ravindra, Venkatesh K. Madyastha, Girija Gopalratnam, Marco Guerriero

Proceedings Volume 8184, Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks VIII; 818404 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.898028
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

Automatic target recognition (ATR) has historically entailed the problems of detection, classification and tracking of ground or air targets from high resolution (imaging) sensor data as well as low resolution (radar) sensor data. A popular approach to solving the ATR problem is Bayesian inference, where detection (position and pose), classification and tracking are solved via a parameter estimation framework. The present paper offers a treatment of a subset of the aforementioned problem, which can be stated as "given imaging data of a stationary ground target and assuming that the target centroid's position is known in pixel coordinates, how can one estimate its pose (orientation) and class?" Furthermore, we also address the problem of scale invariance, i.e. how to ensure that, for instance, a target that appears smaller in an image is not misclassified to a class that has a similar sized template in the database? This problem is a very significant one since it is realistic to expect target templates in the database to be only of a certain size and of targets in the observed image to be smaller or larger depending on its relative distance to the camera. Hence, by proposing the use of scale as an additional parameter to be estimated, it is shown, via simulations, that this inclusion enhances the accuracy of class estimation.

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Vishal C. Ravindra, Venkatesh K. Madyastha, Girija Gopalratnam, and Marco Guerriero "Pose and class estimation of stationary ground vehicles using a scale augmented parameter set", Proc. SPIE 8184, Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks VIII, 818404 (29 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.898028

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