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ABSTRACTGeometric harmonics provides a framework for taking data in high-dimensional measurement spaces and embedding them in low dimensional Euclidean space according to a similarity measure. Euclidean coordinates then characterize the "manifold" on (or near) which the data live. Our goal in this project is to develop this manifold as a mechanism for integrating data from different sensors to facilitate automatic recognition. During the tenure of this research grant, we were able to formulate and complete the first series of experiments on embedded fusion. The resulting experiment on integrating voice and audio streams was extremely successful. This definitely revealed the potential for this approach and set the stage for further experiments. The problem formulation has been completed and confirmed with an experiment on the integration of audio and video streams. Researchers at AFRL, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, have received a first version of the software, and are attempting to apply it to radar signal interpretation.
SUBJECT TERMSgeometric, algorithms, target recognition, ATR Harmonic analysis on manifolds and graphs has recently led to mathematical developments in the field of data analysis. The resulting new tools can be used to compress and analyze large and complex data sets, such as those derived from sensor networks or neuronal activity datasets, obtained in the laboratory or through computer modeling. The nature of the algorithms (based on diffusion maps and connectivity strengths on graphs) possesses a certain analogy with neural information processing, and has the potential to provide inspiration for modeling and understanding biological organization in perception and memory format...