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Integrated Sensing and Processing for Statistical Pattern Recognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2025

Daniel N. Rockmore
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Dennis M. Healy, Jr
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
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This article presents a simple version of Integrated Sensing and Processing (ISP) for statistical pattern recognition wherein the sensor measureIllents to be taken are adaptively selected based on task-specific metries. Thus the measurement space in which the pattern recognition task is ultimately addressed integrates adaptive sensor technology with the specific task for which the sensor is employed. This end-to-end optimization of sensor/ processor/exploitation subsystems is a theme of the DARPA Defense Sciences Office Applied and Computational Mathematics Program's ISP program. We illustrate the idea with a pedagogical example and application to the HyMap hyperspectral sensor and the Tufts University “artificial nose” chemical sensor.

1. Introduction

An important activity, common to many fields of endeavor, is the act of refining high order information (detections of events, classification of objects, identification of activities, etc.) from large volumes of diverse data which is increasingly available through modern means of measurement, communication, and processing. This exploitation function winnows the available data concerning an object or situation in order to extract useful and actionable information, quite often through the application of techniques from statistical pattern recognition to the data. This may involve activities like detection, identification, and classification which are applied to the raw measured data, or possibly to partially processed information derived from it.

When new data are sought in order to obtain information about a specific situation, it is now increasingly common to have many different measurement degrees of freedom potentially available for the task.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2004

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