A target detection scheme for VHF SAR ground surveillance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6970, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ye, Wenxing ^a   Paulson, Christopher ^a   Wu, Dapeng Oliver ^a   Li, Jian ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification in a high dimensional space; I RELIEF; Target detection; VHF SAR

Indexed keywords

(SPM) CLASSES; CARABAS; CHALLENGING PROBLEM; CHANGE DETECTION; DETECTION ALGORITHMS; DETECTION PERFORMANCES; DETECTION SCHEMES; DIVERSITY COMBINING; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; FALSE ALARM RATE (FAR); FALSE ALARMS (FA); FEATURE WEIGHTING; FOREST ENVIRONMENTS; GROUND SURVEILLANCE (GS); IMAGE DIFFERENCING; LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MULTI-PASS; MULTIPLE IMAGES; PENETRATION CAPABILITY; SAR IMAGING; SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGERY; TARGET DETECTION ALGORITHM; TARGET DETECTION PROBABILITY; TARGET DETECTIONS;

ALARM SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DETECTORS; ERRORS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MICROFLUIDICS; MULTITASKING; PAPER; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIO; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUPERVISED LEARNING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; TRACKING RADAR;

TARGETS;

EID: 44949165662     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777303     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. B. Binder, M. Toups, S. Ayasli, and E. Adams, "SAR foliage penetration phenomenology of tropical rain forest and northern US forest," Proceedings of IEEE International Radar Conference, 1995, Alexandria, VA , pp. 158-163, 8-11 May 1995.
2. L. Bessette and S. Ayasli, "Ultra-wideband P-3 and CARABAS II foliage attenuation and backscatter analysis," Proceedings of 2001 IEEE Radar Conference, Atlanta, GA , pp. 357-362, 1-3 May 2001.
3. Y. Sun, Z. Liu, S. Todorovic, and J. Li, "Adaptive boosting for synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 43(1), pp. 112-125, January 2007.
4. L. Kaplan, "Improved SAR target detection via extended fractal features," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 37(2), pp. 436-451, April 2001.
5. D. Howard, S. Roberts, and R. Brankin, "Target detection in SAR imagery by genetic programming," Advances in Engineering Software 30(5), pp. 303-311, May 1999.
6. T. Cooke, N. Redding, J. Schroeder, and J. Zhang, "Comparison of selected features for target detection in synthetic aperture radar imagery," Conference record of the 33rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2, pp. 859-863, 1999.
7. S. Kuttikkad and R. Chellappa, "Non-Gaussian CFAR techniques for target detection in high resolution SAR images," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 1, pp. 910-914, 1994.
8. M. Lundberg, L. Ulander, W. Pierson, and A. Gustavsson, "A challenge problem for detection of targets in foliage," Proceedings of SPIE , 2006.
9. L. Ulander, P. Frolind, A. Gustavsson, H. Hellsten, and B. Larsson, "Detection of concealed ground targets in CARABAS SAR images using change detection," Proceedings of SPIE - International Society Optical, Engineering 3721, pp. 243-252, 1999.
10. L. Ulander, B. Flood, P. Folio, P. Frolind, A. Gustavsson, T. Jonsson, B. Larsson, M. Lundberg, W. Pierson, and G. Stenstrom, "Flight Campaign Vidsel 2002, CARABAS-II change detection analysis," (FOI-R-1001-SE), 2003.
11. L. Ulander, W. Pierson, M. Lundberg, and A. Gustavsson, "Performance of VHF-band SAR, change detection for wide-area surveillance of concealed ground targets," Proceedings of SPIE - International Society Optical, Engineering 5427, pp. 259-270, 2004.
12. L. Ulander, W. Pierson, M. Lundberg, P. Folio, P. Frolind, and A. Gustavsson, "CARABAS-II SAR change detection performance on ground targets concealed in foliage," Proceedings of EUSAR 2004, 5th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, Ulm, GE , pp. 297-300, 25-27 May 2004.
13. "https://www.sdms.afrl.af.mil/datasets/vhf_change_detection/index. php."
14. L. Ulander, M. Lundberg, W. Pierson, and A. Gustavsson, "Change detection for low-frequency SAR ground surveillance," IEE Proceedings of Radar Sonar Navigation 152(6), pp. 413-420, December 2005.
15. W. Hong, Hybrid models for representation of imagery data. PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
16. K. Kira and L. Rendell, "A practical approach to feature selection," Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Machine Learning , pp. 249-256, 1992.
17. Y. Sun and J. Li, "Iterative RELIEF for feature weighting," Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Machine learning 148, pp. 913-920, 2006.