Recognizing target variants and articulations in synthetic aperture radar images

Bir Bhanu; Grinnell Jones III

doi:10.1117/1.602418

1 March 2000 Recognizing target variants and articulations in synthetic aperture radar images

Bir Bhanu, Grinnell Jones III

Optical Engineering, Vol. 39, Issue 3, (March 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602418

The focus of this paper is recognizing articulated vehicles and actual vehicle configuration variants in real synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Using SAR scattering-center locations and magnitudes as features, the invariance of these features is shown with articulation (e.g., rotation of a tank turret), with configuration variants, and with a small change in depression angle. This scatterer-location and magnitude quasiinvariance is used as a basis for development of a SAR recognition system that successfully identifies real articulated and nonstandard- configuration vehicles based on nonarticulated, standard recognition models. identification performance results are presented as vote-space scatterplots and receiver operating characteristic curves for configuration variants, for articulated objects, and for a small change in depression angle with the MSTAR public data.

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Bir Bhanu and Grinnell Jones III "Recognizing target variants and articulations in synthetic aperture radar images," Optical Engineering 39(3), (1 March 2000). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602418

Published: 1 March 2000

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