Patent ID: 9405959
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G01S,G06K,G06T

Claim Text:
1. An automatic computer method for detecting and classifying manmade objects comprising: automatically creating, by a computer, a filter to detect differences in characteristics between natural and manmade objects; automatically receiving, by the computer, sonar intensity data, the sonar intensity data including objects and background; automatically selecting, by the computer, manmade objects from the objects and background based on the filter; automatically separating, by the computer, the selected manmade objects from a background by segmentation; automatically creating, by the computer, a 3D reconstruction of the selected manmade objects by melding multiple scans of information about the selected manmade objects; automatically creating, by the computer, feature vectors based on the 3D reconstruction; and automatically classifying, by the computer, the feature vectors into types based on support vector machine technology and clustering technology.