Recognition of 3-D aircrafts by fourier descriptors with fast and efficient library search

Abstract

Fourier descriptors are used as features for 3-D aircraft classification and pose determination from a 2-D image recorded at an arbitrary viewing angle. By the feature ranking of Fourier descriptors, a classification procedure based on the fast nearest neighbour rule is proposed to save the matching time of an unknown aircraft with a partial library search. The testing results of some typical examples indicate this method is generally applicable and efficient in 3-D aircraft recognition.