Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
5-2024
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Department
Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Degree Program
Computer Science, MS
Committee Chair
Frigui, Hichem
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Nasraoui, Olfa
Committee Member
Nasraoui, Olfa
Committee Member
Imam, Ibrahim
Committee Member
Chou, Keven
Author's Keywords
Bag of prototypes; computer vision; automatic target detection; clustering
Abstract
An Automatic Target Detection (ATD) algorithm is capable of identifying the location of targets of interest captured by Infra-Red imagery in vastly different contexts. ATD is often a precursor in a 2-stage methodology in order to ascertain the location and nature of a target in both military and civilian applications. In order to train an ATD algorithm, a large amount of data from varied sources is required. One drawback of this requirement is that some sources of data may harm the performance of the method in different contexts. This thesis explores utilizing an unsupervised method to identify a subset of training data that optimizes the performance of a given test dataset. The methodology summarizes all available data by a set of visual prototypes. These prototypes are then used to map any collection of data into a single vector. The similarity between two collections can be quantified by comparing their mapped feature vectors using Jenson-Shannon (JS) Divergence. We validate this methodology using a large Infra-Red object detection dataset consisting of various training and testing collections. For each test collection, we train the ATD using only the most similar training collections that have the lowest JS divergence. We show that exclusing dissimilar collections from training can improve the trained ATD model.
Recommended Citation
Michael, Tylman, "Context dependent training data selection for automatic target detection." (2024). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 4362.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/4362