Method and apparatus for predicting object properties and events using similarity-based information retrieval and modeling

US8775428B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · US
• University of Tennessee Research Foundation · US

Inventors

• J. Douglas Birdwell · Oak Ridge, US
• Tse-Wei Wang · Oak Ridge, US
• David J. Icove · Knoxville, US
• Sally P. Horn · Knoxville, US
• Roger Horn · Arlington Heights, US
• Mark S. Rader · Huntsville, US
• Dale V. Stansberry · Oak Ridge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 7, 2013
• Grant date: Jul 8, 2014
• Expiry date: Feb 7, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06V10/7635
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Method and apparatus for predicting properties of a target object comprise application of a search manager for analyzing parameters of a plurality of databases for a plurality of objects, the databases comprising an electrical, electromagnetic, acoustic and thermal spectral database (ESD), a micro-body assemblage database (MAD) and a database of image data whereby the databases store data objects containing identifying features, source information and information on site properties and context including time and frequency varying data. The method comprises application of multivariate statistical analysis and principal component analysis in combination with content-based image retrieval for providing two-dimensional attributes of three dimensional objects, for example, via preferential image segmentation using a tree of shapes and to predict further properties of objects by means of k-means clustering and related methods. By way of example, an evidence tree display showing a target object linked by a pathway to a predicted property comprises a similarity value, a speculation value and a model-based rank.