RADIUS: Model-Based Optimization.

Abstract : The construction and use of 3-D models of military and industrial sites will allow revolutionary advances in the speed, confidence, and range of analytical techniques with which an Image Analyst (IA) develops and reports intelligence information. This SRI research project, in support of the RADIUS Program, seeks to increase the speed and accuracy with which site models can be constructed from current imagery by developing a new family of image understanding (IU) techniques, and by developing a novel way for an IA to employ them. This report describes the techniques developed at SRI under the RADIUS project. The techniques described here have been integrated and tested in the RADIUS Common Development Environment.