Automatic target recognition based on neutral networks

Several researches published about artificial neural networks are connected with military problems. This research put forward ideas connected with the processing of military information to search and identify targets-automatic target recognition (ATR). A main-purpose automatic target recognition system did not exist. The research put forward here was demonstrated on military data, however it could only be considered as a proof of principle until systems were fielded and proven “under-fire”. A TR data could be in the form of non-imaging one-dimensional sensor returns, such as ultra-high range resolution radar returns for air-to-air automatic target recognition and vibration signatures from laser radar for recognition of ground targets. The ATR data could be two-dimensional images. The most common ATR images were infrared, but current systems might also deal with synthetic aperture radar images. Finally, the data could be three-dimensional, such as sequences of multiple exposures taken over time from a no stationary world.