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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2003
Harry C. Lee, Maitland, FL (US);
Johnnie J. Sanders, Orlando, FL (US);
Teresa L. Olson, Winter Garden, FL (US);
Harry C. Lee, Maitland, FL (US);
Johnnie J. Sanders, Orlando, FL (US);
Teresa L. Olson, Winter Garden, FL (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
An automated method of, and computer software and apparatus for, classifying objects visually into one of a plurality of object types comprising receiving a still image including an object, bounding the object within the image, dividing the bound portion of the image into a plurality of profile sections, performing a transform on each of the profile sections selected from discrete cosine transforms and discrete Fourier transforms, and executing a Bayes classifier function to segregate the object into one of the object types.