Statistical Mechanics and Pattern Recognition: A New Feedback Technique

Martin L. Brady; Raghu Raghavan; Joseph Slawny

doi:10.1117/12.960457

5 September 1989 Statistical Mechanics and Pattern Recognition: A New Feedback Technique

Martin L. Brady, Raghu Raghavan, Joseph Slawny

Proceedings Volume 1099, Advances in Image Compression and Automatic Target Recognition; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960457
Event: SPIE 1989 Technical Symposium on Aerospace Sensing, 1989, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In this paper we describe a new pattern recognition method which will allow for a synthesis of approaches based on prior analyses and contextual information with those based on Artificial Neural Networks. We develop a new iterative neural network framework based on a fully parallel probabilistic feedback dynamics. The method allows knowledge about the problem to be built into the network structure. In addition, heuristic search techniques can be incorporated by modifying the probabilities. We illustrate this method with a pattern recognition problem on an infrared image. The performance is better than that of competing methods.

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Martin L. Brady, Raghu Raghavan, and Joseph Slawny "Statistical Mechanics and Pattern Recognition: A New Feedback Technique", Proc. SPIE 1099, Advances in Image Compression and Automatic Target Recognition, (5 September 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960457

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