VLSI implementable neural networks for target tracking

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This paper describes part of an integrated system for target tracking. The image is acquired, edge detected, and segmented by a subsystem not discussed in this paper. Algorithms to determine the centroid of a windowed target using neural networks are developed. Further, once the target centroid is determined, it is continuously updated in order to track the trajectory, since the centroid location is not dependent on scaling or rotation on the optical axis. The image is then mapped to a log-spiral grid. A conformal transformation is used to map the log-spiral grid to a computation plane in which rotations and scalings are transformed to displacements along the vertical and horizonal axes, respectively. The images in this plane are used for recognition. The recognition algorithms are the subject of another paper. A second neural network, also described in this paper, is then used to determine object rotation and scaling. The algorithm used by this network is an original line correlator tracker which, as the name indicates, uses linear instead of 2D correlations. Simulation results using ICBM images are presented for both the centroid neural net and the rotation-scaling detection network.

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