Baseline processing pipeline for fast automatic target detection and recognition in airborne 3D ladar imagery
Bibliographic record
Abstract
It has been proven that 3D ladar imagery has a strong potential for automatic target detection (ATD) and automatic target recognition (ATR); ladars enhance target information, which may then be exploited to yield higher recognition rates and lower false alarms. Although numerous techniques have been proposed for both 3D ATD and 3D ATR, no single approach has proven capable of systematically outperforming all other techniques for every possible scenario. In this context, this paper describes a set of fast 3D ATD/ATR algorithms designed to process cooperative targets in airborne 3D ladar imagery. This algorithmic chain consists of four modules: detection, segmentation, classification and recognition. In each module, fast algorithms were implemented, some of which stem from open literature while others were designed in-house. The purpose of this algorithmic chain is to provide a baseline approach for efficient processing of simple scenarios. The ultimate goal of this work is to characterize and compare algorithms with respect to increasingly complex scenarios, in hopes of progressing towards an adaptive processing pipeline for context-driven 3D ATD/ATR. In this paper, the four modules of the baseline processing pipeline are first described. Preliminary test results obtained with real airborne ladar imagery are then presented, in which fast and accurate 3D ATD/ATR is performed with a library of 20 scanned vehicles. Finally, a demonstration is presented to illustrate how this baseline approach may be expanded to tackle more complex scenarios, such as non-cooperative targets concealed under vegetation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".