Improving OT-MACH filter performance for target recognition applications with the use of a Rayleigh distribution filter

Ahmad Alkandri; Nagachetan Bangalore; Akber Gardezi; Philip Birch; Rupert Young; Chris Chatwin

doi:10.1117/12.918756

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23 April 2012 Improving OT-MACH filter performance for target recognition applications with the use of a Rayleigh distribution filter

Ahmad Alkandri, Nagachetan Bangalore, Akber Gardezi, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, Chris Chatwin

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Proceedings Volume 8398, Optical Pattern Recognition XXIII; 83980D (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918756
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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An improvement to the wavelet-modified Optimal Trade-off Maximum Average Correlation Height (OT-MACH) filter with the use of the Rayleigh distribution filter is proposed. The Rayleigh distribution filter is applied to the OT-MACH filter to provide a sharper low frequency cut-off than the Laplacian of Gaussian based wavelet filter that has been previously reported to enhance OT-MACH filter performance. Filters are trained using a 3D CAD model and tested on the corresponding real target object in high clutter environments acquired from a Forward Looking Infra Red (FLIR) sensor. Comparative evaluation of the performance of the original, wavelet and Rayleigh modified OT-MACH filter is reported for the recognition of the target objects present within the thermal infra-red image data set.

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Ahmad Alkandri, Nagachetan Bangalore, Akber Gardezi, Philip Birch, Rupert Young, and Chris Chatwin "Improving OT-MACH filter performance for target recognition applications with the use of a Rayleigh distribution filter", Proc. SPIE 8398, Optical Pattern Recognition XXIII, 83980D (23 April 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918756

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