Investigation of computational vision and principal component analysis with application to target classification

Authors

Eddie L. Jacobs, U.S. Army Communications and Electronics CommandFollow
Gary O'Brien, U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command

Abstract

A comparison between metrics based on computational vision (CV) and principal component analysis (PCA) is been performed. A CV metric is developed based on the response of the CAMAELEON model and compared with a PCA metric on the basis of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) target chip classification. The two techniques are not correlated and are, to some degree, independent. The independence of these techniques could be used to enhance the decision process in aided target recognition (ATR) applications. In addition, it appears that the use of PCA gives a simple way to detect the presence of a target. The evidence indicates that the method used here could be used as a sophisticated window filter to find regions of interest in images. © 1998 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.

Publication Title

Optical Engineering

Recommended Citation

Jacobs, E., & O'Brien, G. (1998). Investigation of computational vision and principal component analysis with application to target classification. Optical Engineering (7), 2022-2028. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601891