METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING TARGETS IN SONAR IMAGES

Patent №

US 5,214,744

Granted

1993-05-25

Filed 1990

Owner

WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, WESTINGHOUSE BUILDING, GATEWAY CENTER, PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 A CORP. OF PA

Lab

AI components

4

ml · vision · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07628115

A method and apparatus for automatically identifying targets in sonar images utilizes three processing systems which preferably operate simultaneously. After the image has been filtered and Fourier transformed, a highlight-shadow detector classifies portions of the image as a highlight, a shadow or background according to greyness levels of pixels in such portions. A statistical cuer selects those portions which have been classified as a highlight or a shadow. A neural network then classifies the sets of highlight and shadow reports as targets or background.

Machine learningVisionPlanningAI hardwareG01S 7/52004G01S 7/539G06V 10/255G06V 10/44

AI classification

Vision1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware0.99
Planning0.73
Knowledge representation0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, WESTINGHOUSE BUILDING, GATEWAY CENTER, PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 A CORP. OF PA

assignment · 56200525

Assignors

SCHWEIZER, PHILIPP F.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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