Research on application of LADAR in ground vehicle recognition

Jinhui Lan; Zhuoxun Shen

doi:10.1117/12.837675

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24 November 2009 Research on application of LADAR in ground vehicle recognition

Jinhui Lan, Zhuoxun Shen

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Proceedings Volume 7513, 2009 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Imaging and Process Technology; 751319 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.837675
Event: International Conference on Optical Instrumentation and Technology, 2009, Shanghai, China

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For the requirement of many practical applications in the field of military, the research of 3D target recognition is active. The representation that captures the salient attributes of a 3D target independent of the viewing angle will be especially useful to the automatic 3D target recognition system. This paper presents a new approach of image generation based on Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) data. Range image of target is obtained by transformation of point cloud. In order to extract features of different ground vehicle targets and to recognize targets, zernike moment properties of typical ground vehicle targets are researched in this paper. A technique of support vector machine is applied to the classification and recognition of target. The new method of image generation and feature representation has been applied to the outdoor experiments. Through outdoor experiments, it can be proven that the method of image generation is stability, the moments are effective to be used as features for recognition, and the LADAR can be applied to the field of 3D target recognition.

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Jinhui Lan and Zhuoxun Shen "Research on application of LADAR in ground vehicle recognition", Proc. SPIE 7513, 2009 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Imaging and Process Technology, 751319 (24 November 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.837675

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