Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Guy W Cheesman, Iii

Martin G Woolfson

Scott A Imhoff

Giora A Bendor

James R Brinsley

Martin M Morici

A classifier employing general frame wavelets for improving target recognition while decreasing computational intensity is disclosed. A wavelet selection means compares a portion of a time dependent input signal from a receiver with a set of sample wavelets, each wavelet being bandpass limited, locally supported, and mean zero, and selects a prototype wavelet resembling the input portion. A resolving means expands the prototype wavelet onto a basis of wavelet functions having variations in scale and delay, and resolves the input signal onto the basis of functions. A regionpass filter identifies a region from a grid of resolved coefficients that contains features of a target from the input signal and discards coefficients outside the region. A separability filter passes select coefficients from a scale band within the identified region where separability among known targets is high. A comparator compares the selected coefficients with an exemplar of known targets to indicate a recognition of the target.

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Anne Arundel County, MD, United States of America

Guy W Cheesman, Iii