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Agent: Air Force Research Lab, Dr. Tim Ross
Program Goals:
The PET program is working to advance theory and methods for estimating the performance of automatic target recognition (ATR) systems. The project is developing a comprehensive theory of ATR system performance in collaboration with AFRL and other contractors. The objective of program is to use innovative technology to establish a rigorous methodology for predicting and evaluating ATR system and module performance. In particular, it is developing methods applicable to SAR ATR system capable of locating and recognizing time critical targets in highly unconstrained ground-based image analysis scenarios.
Key Technology:
Key Product:
The products of the program will be of three types: (i) exact ATR performance
results for simple models which can serve as a benchmark for more general techniques,
(ii) upper and lower bounds on ATR performance for more complex models, and
(iii) system analysis results which estimate the performance of ATR systems
in terms of the performance of individual ATR functional modules.
These products will take the form of mathematical formulae for the performance
estimates, software to compute the estimates, and numerical results comparing
performance estimates to the actual performance of ATR systems.
Points of Contact:
Dr. William Irving, PET PI: (781)-273-3388, x285
Dr. John Wissinger, MSTAR Program Manager: (781)-273-3388, x239
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Last Modified 12/07/98