Wavelet-Based Feature Extraction for Target Recognition and Minefield Detection

摘要

The P.I. visited the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Dahlgren, VA, for one week in January to continue his established collaboration with NSWC personnel. In particular, the work with Ronald Gross on the development of a MATLAB demonstration suite, and with Dr. Addison Jump on wavelet theory, deserve mention. Details are given in Section II of the progress report. The collaboration with NSWC personnel has been particularly productive, both in regard to the work on this project and also to work in other areas of interest to the Navy. The P.I. spent the summer months in South Africa, working at the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. Valuable collaborations were established with researchers at these two institutions, and plans are in place to obtain support from the South African Foundation for Research Development to obtain funding for their doctoral students to visit UNC-Charlotte, further solidifying the relationship between the P.I. and these universities. Good progress has been maintained in completing tasks laid out in the proposal for this project, including a dramatic improvement in the speed of the wavelet transform software and several theoretical results of use to the project. Details are given in Section II of the progress report, and copies of publications are attached to the report.