Object/Target Discrimination, Recognition, and Identification

This proposal will allow systems using an input of one EO target image with a stored feature database of target geometric features (points/lines) to identify the target from the feature pattern in the EO image. A key advantage is that this is done from the imaged target features alone without data on the camera position/orientation relative to the target. The present goal is to develop software modules to overcome two key limits on this approach : 1) noise/errors in extracted target features in an EO image and 2)distinguish decoys from targets. If successful,it will seperate real targets from decoys using a robust software system containing these modules.