Joint infrared target recognition and segmentation using a shape manifold-aware level set

We propose new techniques for joint recognition, segmentation and pose estimation of infrared (IR) targets. The problem is formulated in a probabilistic level set framework where a shape constrained generative model is used to provide a multi-class and multi-view shape prior and where the shape mode...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2015-04, Vol.15 (5), p.10118-10145
Main Authors: Yu, Liangjiang, Fan, Guoliang, Gong, Jiulu, Havlicek, Joseph P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Computer engineering
Infrared
infrared ATR
Joint products
level set
Matching
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical models
Optimization
particle swarm optimization
Recognition
Segmentation
Sensors
shape modeling
Swarm intelligence
Target recognition
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Summary:We propose new techniques for joint recognition, segmentation and pose estimation of infrared (IR) targets. The problem is formulated in a probabilistic level set framework where a shape constrained generative model is used to provide a multi-class and multi-view shape prior and where the shape model involves a couplet of view and identity manifolds (CVIM). A level set energy function is then iteratively optimized under the shape constraints provided by the CVIM. Since both the view and identity variables are expressed explicitly in the objective function, this approach naturally accomplishes recognition, segmentation and pose estimation as joint products of the optimization process. For realistic target chips, we solve the resulting multi-modal optimization problem by adopting a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and then improve the computational efficiency by implementing a gradient-boosted PSO (GB-PSO). Evaluation was performed using the Military Sensing Information Analysis Center (SENSIAC) ATR database, and experimental results show that both of the PSO algorithms reduce the cost of shape matching during CVIM-based shape inference. Particularly, GB-PSO outperforms other recent ATR algorithms, which require intensive shape matching, either explicitly (with pre-segmentation) or implicitly (without pre-segmentation).
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s150510118