SBIR/STTR Research Award
AUTONOMOUS TARGET RECOGNITION USING NEURAL NETWORKS
Award amount
$500,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1989Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Expert-ease Systems
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
AN AUTONOMOUS TARGET RECOGNITION SYSTEM, INCORPORATING NEURAL NETS IS PROPOSED. A PROTOTYPE WILL BE DEVELOPED AND EVALUATED IN A VARIETY OF CIRCUMSTANCES TO ASSESS THE SYSTEMS RELIABILITY, TOLERANCE TO SIGNAL NOISE, AND ABILITY TO IDENTIFY OBJECTS GIVEN ONLY ORTHOGONALVIEWS OF THE TRAINING OBJECTS. THIS APPROACH OFFERS A NUMBER OF ADVANTAGES OVER CURRENT MACHINE VISION TECHNOLOGIES AND IS GENERALIZABLE TO A WIDE VARIETY OF PASSIVE SENSOR SYSTEMS. IT IS ALSO IMPLEMENTABLE IN VLSI CIRCUITS OR OPTICAL COMPUTERS.
Technology keywords
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