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IN THIS PROPOSAL, WE WOULD LIKE TO CONSTRUCT AN AUTOMATIC HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM BASED ON NEURAL NETWORK PRINCIPLES. A PRELIMINARY STUDY HAS RESULTED IN A MODEL SYSTEM THAT COULD RECOGNIZE HANDWRITTEN ENGLISH ALPHABET AND ARABIC NUMERALS IN A TENTH OF A SECOND ON A 386 MICRO-COMPUTER WITH AVERAGE ACCURACY OVER 95% IN AN OFF-LINE WRITER INDEPENDENT MODE. THE GENERALIZATION IS SO G ...

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THIS PROJECT WILL DEMONSTRATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A NEW APPROACH TO THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY IN IMAGE UNDERSTANDING (IU). IT IS BASED UPON THE USE OF A SHARED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR IU, CALLED THE KBVISION (TM) SYSTEM, WHICH CAN SERVE TO EASE THE TRANSFER OF COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS. THE PHASE I PROPOSAL WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THE TRANSFER OF IU SOFTWARE BY SHARING ...

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THIS RESEARCH PROPOSAL IS AIMED AT PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION AND FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING THE SIGNAL-TO-CLUTTER RATIO IN FOLIAGE PENETRATION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) DATA, BASED ON ADAPTIVE CROSS-MODELING OF THE COMPETING CLUTTER THROUGH THE USE OF MULTIPLE RADAR FREQUENCIES. THE ADAPTIVE CROSS-MODELING APPROACH SEEKS TO ESTIMATE THE CLUTTER RETURN ...

THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS TO ESTABLISH THE FEASIBILITY OF APPLYING NEWLY DEVELOPED MORPHOLOGY-BASED DETECTION ALGORITHMS TO THE POWERLINE DETECTION PROBLEM IN SAR AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY AND TO DESIGN AN OVERALL PROGRAM TO INTEGRATE THIS TECHNOLOGY INTO A COMPLETE MAP VALIDATION AND UPDATING SYSTEM. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS OUR APPROACH IS TWOFOLD. FIRST, DETECTION PERFORMANCE CAN BE DRAMATICALLY IMPROV ...

THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A NOVEL METHOD FOR TARGETING NOISY, HIGH-VALUE TARGETS SUCH AS ENEMY ARTILLERY, HELICOPTERS AND, PERHAPS, HEAVY VEHICLES AND GENERATORS. THE CONCEPT MAKES USE OF RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE ACOUSTIC SENSORS WHICH CAN BE DEPLOYED IN ENEMY TERRITORY BY AIR DROP OR BY ARTILLERY. THE SYSTEM LOCATES TARGETS BY CORRELATING THE ACOUSTIC SIGNALS RECEIVED BY SEVERAL PAIRS OF SENSORS TO D ...

WE PROPOSE TO IMPROVE RESIST MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT BY USING COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION TO EVALUATE THE MATERIAL PROPERTIES SUITABLE FOR THE DEEP UV RANGE. WE PROPOSE TO DISCUSS CURRENT MATERIALS WITH RESIST PRODUCERS AND THEN TO WORK WITH THE MANUFACTURERS OF PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY SYSTEMS AND THE DESIGNERS OF SEMICONDUCTORS TO DEVELOP PROCEDURES AND DESIGN RULES WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OPTIMAL USE O ...

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