Investigation of measureable parameters that correlate with automatic target recognition performance in synthetic aperture sonar

Julia Gazagnaire; J. Tory Cobb; Jason C. Isaacs

doi:10.1117/12.2179191

21 May 2015 Investigation of measureable parameters that correlate with automatic target recognition performance in synthetic aperture sonar

Julia Gazagnaire, J. Tory Cobb, Jason C. Isaacs

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Proceedings Volume 9454, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XX; 94541K (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2179191
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2015, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

There is a desire in the Mine Counter Measure community to develop a systematic method to predict and/or estimate the performance of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms that are detecting and classifying mine-like objects within sonar data. Ideally, parameters exist that can be measured directly from the sonar data that correlate with ATR performance. In this effort, two metrics were analyzed for their predictive potential using high frequency synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) images. The first parameter is a measure of contrast. It is essentially the variance in pixel intensity over a fixed partition of relatively small size. An analysis was performed to determine the optimum block size for this contrast calculation. These blocks were then overlapped in the horizontal and vertical direction over the entire image. The second parameter is the one-dimensional K-shape parameter. The K-distribution is commonly used to describe sonar backscatter return from range cells that contain a finite number of scatterers. An Ada-Boosted Decision Tree classifier was used to calculate the probability of classification (P_c) and false alarm rate (FAR) for several types of targets in SAS images from three different data sets. ROC curves as a function of the measured parameters were generated and the correlation between the measured parameters in the vicinity of each of the contacts and the ATR performance was investigated. The contrast and K-shape parameters were considered separately. Additionally, the contrast and K-shape parameter were associated with background texture types using previously labeled high frequency SAS images.

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Julia Gazagnaire, J. Tory Cobb, and Jason C. Isaacs "Investigation of measureable parameters that correlate with automatic target recognition performance in synthetic aperture sonar", Proc. SPIE 9454, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XX, 94541K (21 May 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2179191

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Automatic target recognition

Palladium

Data modeling

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