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Optical correlator based target detection, recognition, classification, and tracking.

Tariq Manzur¹, John Zeller, Steve Serati

¹Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island 02841, USA. tariq.manzur@navy.mil

|August 4, 2012

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A new optical correlator (OC) system offers advanced automatic target recognition and tracking for maritime environments. This innovative system outperforms traditional filters and allows for miniaturization of the OC components.

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence

Background:

Traditional optical correlator (OC) systems face limitations in target recognition and tracking accuracy, particularly with varying target characteristics.
Maximum average correlation height filters exhibit diminishing correlation peak intensity with an increasing number of training images, impacting performance.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel automatic target recognition and tracking optical correlator (OC) system.
To enhance target tracking capabilities in maritime environments, including future track prediction.
To investigate the potential for miniaturization of OC system components.

Main Methods:

Utilizing advanced processing technology for a dedicated OC system.
Employing rapidly cycling data-cubes with variable size, shape, and orientation.
Implementing software algorithms to isolate correlation peaks and enable target tracking.

Main Results:

The developed OC system demonstrates superior performance compared to maximum average correlation height filters.
The system effectively isolates correlation peaks and enables tracking of targets in maritime settings.
Future track prediction capabilities have been integrated into the tracking system.

Conclusions:

The advanced OC system provides a robust solution for automatic target recognition and tracking.
The system's performance advantages over traditional filters are significant.
The physical dimensions of the OC system can be substantially reduced, enabling practical applications in constrained environments.