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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2005
Mark Robert Patterson, Gloucester Point, VA (US);
Daniel Foster Doolittle, Miami, FL (US);
Roger Leslie Mann, Dutton, VA (US);
Zia-ur Rahman, Williamsburg, VA (US);
Mark Robert Patterson, Gloucester Point, VA (US);
Daniel Foster Doolittle, Miami, FL (US);
Roger Leslie Mann, Dutton, VA (US);
Zia-ur Rahman, Williamsburg, VA (US);
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for identifying and quantifying targets within a liquid medium. A raw sidescan sonar image is collected. A region of interest is separated from the image. An image transformation is performed using an extraction algorithm. Salient image characteristics are calculated. Spurious pixels are removed from the image to obtain an extracted region of interest. Particle analysis is performed on the extracted region of interest to generate a feature vector which is presented to a neural network for classification.