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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 19, 1997
Charles McNary, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Kurt Reiser, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David M Doria, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David W Webster, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Yang Chen, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
A hierarchical object recognition method for aggregation, interpretation and classification of information from multiple sensor sources on the detection feature attribute level. The system extracts information derived from each sensor source to obtain detections and their feature attributes. At least two processing streams, one for each sensor source, are provided for converting the detections and their feature attributes into hypotheses on identity and class of detected objects. The detections are shared and combined between the two processing streams using hierarchical information fusion algorithms to determine which ones of the hypotheses on identity and class of detected objects have sufficient probabilities for classifying the information.