Parameter Reduction, Selection, and Control of Motion Energy Processing for Missile Defense

"Computational Sensors Corp. (CSC) proposes a hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) operational testing and analysis program to develop a framework designed to efficiently control our spatio-temporal image processing hardware. In previous work, CSC developed amassively parallel, real-time video processing system capable of bulk spatial and temporal filtering in the analog domain. The system is capable of agile, spatial and temporal filtering using low-power, analog silicon retinas in a programmable multi-chiparchitecture. Subsequent work has demonstrated the utility of spatio-temporal filtering in a number of critical MDA programs. The dramatic system versatility, enabling full intra-frame filtering parameter adaptation, necessitates the development of anefficient control methodology for governing the many system parameters so that the system can responsively interact with interceptor sensor systems for a variety of missile defense engagement scenarios. This effort will develop and optimize the systemcontrol methodology needed to program and control the existing S-T filtering hardware to enable guidance and control and/or target tracking systems to effectively operate the motion energy processor in real time. The spatio-temporal motion energy systempreviously developed by CSC has the potential to provide sophisticated wavelet discrimination of subtle target discrimination both spatially and temporally with an extremely large computational c