Log-polar and polar image for recognition targets

Abstract

We describe in this paper, data processing algorithms applied on radar image in order to extract feature descriptors and then to perform recognition task. Several kinds of descriptors can be used to acquire information about target characteristics from radar images such as ISAR (Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar) images. This paper presents two types of vector descriptors extracted via two minds of transformed images so-called polar and log-polar images obtained respectively from the polar and log-polar mapping. In order to guarantee the invariance of some geometrical transformation, additional processing are proposed. In this paper, we present the polar and log-polar transformations and then the classification scheme adapted on correspondent polar and log-polar templates. In the classification step, log-polar and polar mapping results are compared using adapted classification scheme.