title: Joint target tracking, recognition and segmentation for infrared imagery using a shape manifold-based level set.
abstract: We propose a new integrated target tracking, recognition and segmentation algorithm, called ATR-Seg, for infrared imagery. ATR-Seg is formulated in a probabilistic shape-aware level set framework that incorporates a joint view-identity manifold (JVIM) for target shape modeling. As a shape generative model, JVIM features a unified manifold structure in the latent space that is embedded with one view-independent identity manifold and infinite identity-dependent view manifolds. In the ATR-Seg algorithm, the ATR problem formulated as a sequential level-set optimization process over the latent space of JVIM, so that tracking and recognition can be jointly optimized via implicit shape matching where target segmentation is achieved as a by-product without any pre-processing or feature extraction. Experimental results on the recently released SENSIAC ATR database demonstrate the advantages and effectiveness of ATR-Seg over two recent ATR algorithms that involve explicit shape matching.
authors.affiliation: School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, No. 5, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China. gongjiulu@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Jiulu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 202 Engineering South, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA. guoliang.fan@okstate.edu.
authors.forename: Guoliang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 202 Engineering South, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA. liangjiang.yu@okstate.edu.
authors.forename: Liangjiang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 110 West Boyd, DEH 150Norman, OK 73019, USA. joebob@ou.edu.
authors.forename: Joseph P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Havlicek
authors.affiliation: School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, No. 5, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China. cdr@bit.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Derong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: School of Mechatronical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, No. 5, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China. njfan@bit.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Ningjun
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fan