The large-distance penetration capability of an annular-shaped charge under multipoint synchronous initiation was experimentally investigated. For different annular structures and settings, incident angle, collision type detonation waves, overpressure on the shaped charge’s liner at adjacent points were analyzed using wave propagation theory. Furthermore, a standoff distance 1–15 m from 20 mm t...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are used in a ten-class automatic target recognition system using data from the public release of the MSTAR program. A likelihood ratio-based approach for target recognition is adopted using the conditionally Gaussian model. The target orientation is assumed to be unknown and uniformly distributed. The target orientation is estimated, along with the target ...

A lidar technique employing temporally stretched, frequency chirped pulses from a 20 MHz mode locked laser is presented. Sub-millimeter resolution at a target range of 10.1 km (in fiber) is observed. A pulse tagging scheme based on phase modulation is demonstrated for range resolved measurements. A carrier to noise ratio of 30 dB is observed at an unambiguous target distance of 30 meters in fiber.

When the training instances of the target class are heavily outnumbered by non-target training instances, SVMs can be ineffective in determining the class boundary. To remedy this problem, we propose an adaptive conformal transformation (ACT) algorithm. ACT considers feature-space distance and the class-imbalance ratio when it performs conformal transformation on a kernel function. Experimental...

We consider searching problems in robotics that a robot has to nd a path to a target by traveling in an unknown star-shaped polygon P. The goal is to minimize the ratio of the distance traveled by the robot to the length of the shortest start-to-target path. Let s be a starting point in P. We rst present a competitive strategy to nd a path from s to the closest kernel point k of P. The length o...

Tseng, Y. C., & Li, C. S. (2004). Oculomotor correlates of context-guided learning in visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 66, 1368-1378 noted that visual search with eye movements may be characterized by a search phase in which fixations do not move towards the target, followed by a phase in which fixations move steadily towards the target. They speculated that the phases are related to ...

Binocular disparity is a powerful cue for the perception of depth. The accuracy with which observers can judge depth from disparity can, however, be very poor. This has been attributed to difficulties associated with the scaling of disparity to take account of distance (Johnston, 1991). We test potential strategies that could be used to improve this scaling. Using the depth-to-width ratio task ...