Abstract Imaging systems that operate in the mid-infrared spectrum have a lot of potential for use in military trackers and weapon systems. Edge detection is the primary means from which a target's spatial and trajectory features are derived. Targets are separated from the image background using edge detection in a process called segmentation. Typical edge detection techniques employ thresholding operators to emphasize the areas in an image where intensity changes significantly. Techniques have...

Abstract The enclosed project contains the results of the research, analysis and testing of a Modified Boosting Algorithm to be used by a configuration of learning machines in order to perform regression. The algorithm is used to construct a set of "weak learners", whose individual performance is only slightly better than 50%, but whose ensemble performance is better than any one regression machine. The intent is to develop the algorithm and to demonstrate that it performs as well, if...