Are higher performance image processors like GAPP really needed?

Eugene L. Cloud; Herbert A. Duvoisin III; Robert D. Jackson; Mark S. Tomassi

doi:10.1117/12.200799

31 January 1995 Are higher performance image processors like GAPP really needed?

Eugene L. Cloud, Herbert A. Duvoisin III, Robert D. Jackson, Mark S. Tomassi

Proceedings Volume 2368, 23rd AIPR Workshop: Image and Information Systems: Applications and Opportunities; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.200799
Event: 23 Annual AIPR Workshop: Image and Information Systems: Applications and Opportunities, 1994, Washington, DC, United States

Abstract

We are building automatic target recognizer (ATR) systems. These systems are being applied to many different target detection scenarios. Our work has been in the military application field, but the problems are the same for most commercial applications as well. The measures of performance are the same. How well can a human perform the same target detection task? What is the probability of detecting (Pd) the target versus the false alarm rate (FAR)? The community has evolved comparative performance techniques that present the merits of alternative system approaches. In this paper, we present the results of a comparative study of alternative algorithms for detecting and classifying buried and surface land mines from an airborne platform in infrared imagery. The results show that for low signal-to-clutter ratios, more complex algorithms produce higher Pd for a given FAR. More complex algorithms signify the need for a high performance, high throughput processor to meet typical time lines. An update on the geometric arithmetic parallel processor (GAPP^TM) high performance/throughput machine is therefore provided.

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Eugene L. Cloud, Herbert A. Duvoisin III, Robert D. Jackson, and Mark S. Tomassi "Are higher performance image processors like GAPP really needed?", Proc. SPIE 2368, 23rd AIPR Workshop: Image and Information Systems: Applications and Opportunities, (31 January 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.200799

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