VIGILANTE: An advanced sensing/processing testbed for ATR applications

Suraphol Udomkesmalee; Anilkumar P. Thakoor; Curtis W. Padgett; Taher Daud; Wai-Chi  Fang; Steven C. Suddarth

doi:10.1117/12.277145

VIGILANTE: An advanced sensing/processing testbed for ATR applications

Suraphol Udomkesmalee^*, Anilkumar P. Thakoor, Curtis W. Padgett, Taher Daud, Wai-Chi Fang, Steven C. Suddarth

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Institute of Electronics

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Abstract

VIGILANTE consists of two major components: (1) the viewing image/gimballed instrumentation laboratory (VIGIL) - advanced infrared, visible, and ultraviolet sensors with appropriate optics and camera electronics; (2) the analog neural three- dimensional processing experiment (ANTE) - a massively parallel, neural network-based, high-speed processor. The powerful combination of VIGIL and ANTE will provide real-time target recognition/tracking capability suitable for ballistic missile defense organization (BMDO) applications as well as a host of other civil and military uses. In this paper, we describe VIGILANTE and its application to typical automatic target recognition (ATR) applications (e.g., aircraft/missile detection, classification, and tracking), this includes a discussion of the VIGILANTE architecture with its unusual blend of experimental 3D electronic circuitry, custom design and commercial parallel processing components, as well as VIGILANTE's ability to handle a wide variety of algorithms which make extensive use of convolutions and neural networks. Our paper also presents examples and numerical results.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	82-93
Number of pages	12
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	3069
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.277145
State	Published - 1 Dec 1997
Event	Automatic Target Recognition VII - Orlando, FL, United States Duration: 22 Apr 1997 → 22 Apr 1997

Keywords

Automatic target recognition
Multispectral sensors
Neural processor
System architecture

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