title: Recognition using information-optimal adaptive feature-specific imaging.
abstract: We present an information-theoretic adaptive feature-specific imaging (AFSI) system for a M-class recognition task. The proposed system utilizes the recently developed task-specific information (TSI) framework to incorporate the knowledge from previous measurements and adapt the projection matrix at each step. The decision-making framework is based on sequential hypothesis testing. We quantify the number of measurements required to achieve a specified probability of misclassification (P(e)), and we compare the performances of three approaches: the new TSI-based AFSI system, a previously reported statistical AFSI system, and static FSI (SFSI). The TSI-based AFSI system exhibits significant improvement compared with SFSI and statistical AFSI at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). It is shown that for M=4 hypotheses, SNR=-20 dB and desired P(e)=10(-2), TSI-based AFSI requires 3 times fewer measurements than statistical AFSI, and 16 times fewer measurements than SFSI. We also describe an extension of the proposed method that is suitable for recognition in the presence of nuisance parameters such as illumination conditions and target orientations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1230 East Speedway Boulevard, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. baheti@email.arizona.edu
authors.forename: Pawan K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Baheti
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Neifeld