Automated development of linguistic-fuzzy classifier membership functions and weights for use in disparate sensor integration visible and infrared imaging sensor classification

Bruce N. Nelson; Amnon Birenzvige

doi:10.1117/12.540858

12 April 2004 Automated development of linguistic-fuzzy classifier membership functions and weights for use in disparate sensor integration visible and infrared imaging sensor classification

Bruce N. Nelson, Amnon Birenzvige

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Proceedings Volume 5434, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2004; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.540858
Event: Defense and Security, 2004, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In support of the Disparate Sensor Integration (DSI) Program a number of imaging sensors were fielded to determine the feasibility of using information from these systems to discriminate between chemical and conventional munitions. The camera systems recorded video from 160 training and 100 blind munitions detonation events. Two types of munitions were used; 155 mm conventional rounds and 155 mm chemical simulant rounds. In addition two different modes of detonation were used with these two classes of munitions; detonation on impact (point detonation) and detonation in the air (airblasts). The cameras fielded included two visible wavelength cameras, a near infrared camera (peak responsivity of approximately 1μm), a mid wavelength infrared camera system (3 μm to 5 μm) and a long wavelength infrared camera system (7.5 μm to 13 μm). Our recent work has involved developing Linguistic-Fuzzy Classifiers for performing munitions detonation classification with the DSI visible and infrared imaging sensors data sets. In this initial work, the classifiers were heuristically developed based on analyses of the training data features distributions. In these initial classification systems both the membership functions and the feature weights were hand developed and tuned. We have recently developed new methodologies to automatically generate membership functions and weights in Linguistic-Fuzzy Classifiers. This paper will describe this new methodology and provide an example of its efficacy for separating munitions detonation events into either air or point detonation. This is a critical initial step in achieving the overall goal of DSI; the classification of detonation events as either chemical or conventional. Further, the detonation mode is important as it significantly effects the dispersion of agents. The results presented in this paper clearly demonstrate that the automatically developed classifiers perform as well in this classification task as the previously developed and demonstrated empirically developed classifiers.

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Bruce N. Nelson and Amnon Birenzvige "Automated development of linguistic-fuzzy classifier membership functions and weights for use in disparate sensor integration visible and infrared imaging sensor classification", Proc. SPIE 5434, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2004, (12 April 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.540858

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