The RADC Interactive Laboratory for Design of Pattern Recognition Systems and Its Application

Abstract : This paper describes the Interactive Laboratory for Design of Pattern Recognition Systems which exists at the Rome Air Development Center (RADC) of the United States Air Force. A brief history of the research that led to the interactive approach is included, together with the philosophy of the interactive approach. Applications of the laboratory to some real problems are discussed, together with some comments on its use in a course in Pattern Recognition given at RADC. The paper is tutorial in the sense that most of the results have been previously published in fragments. The main contribution of this paper is a description of a real physical laboratory whose implementation is based on an interactive approach to pattern recognition which has evolved over the years. (Author)