SAR微动目标的稀疏贝叶斯成像方法

SAR微动信息能够反映出目标的属性信息,其微动图像可作为雷达目标识别的一种重要手段。基于SAR微动目标回波的稀疏特性,建立了在过完备词典下的稀疏表示模型,提出一种新的稀疏贝叶斯重构方法——方差成分扩张压缩,该方法仅赋予有重要意义的信号元素不同的方差分量,拥有更少的参数。仿真结果表明,方差成分扩张压缩方法能较精确地估计出SAR目标微动参数,同时能够获得低信噪比条件下较好的微动目标像。     

图像标注研究及其在情报处理中的应用

图像数据具有直观、信息量丰富等特点。图像标注方法通过获取图像特征,训练语言模型,实现用自然语言自动描述图像信息。简要介绍了图像标注方法的分类及其相关关键技术。研究表明,通过对大规模图像的自动描述,能更好地管理、分析海量图像信息,能高效地对图像进行分类、检索。结合特定的信息处理技术,图像标注可用于发现有价值的情报信息,为国防安全、战略决策等提供信息支撑。     

基于PCA特征的快速SAR图像目标识别方法

目标识别是SAR图像解译的重要一环,受到广泛的关注,而实时性又是评估目标识别系统性能的主要指标之一.从实时的角度出发,提出了一种快速的SAR目标识别方法.该方法采用基于Hebb学习规则的主分量分析(PCA)进行特征提取,使用多层感知器神经网络(MLP NN)进行目标分类.实验结果表明,在维持较好识别性能的前提下,该方法具有内存需求少、运行速度快的特点,能用于实时处理.     

基于Hausdorff距离的目标跟踪方法研究

序列图像中的运动目标跟踪是计算机视觉的一个重要组成部分,跟踪算法的鲁棒性和计算量是算法的关键。对上述问题进行研究,提出了一种基于Hausdorff距离的目标跟踪方法。该算法结合运动检测和多分辨率技术,极大减少了计算量,并利用有效的模板更新方法,加强了跟踪的鲁棒性。实验表明,该算法能实现快速有效的目标跟踪。     

一种面向目标的伪彩色图像融合算法

针对远距离红外与可见光融合图像中目标不突出的问题,提出了一种面向目标的伪彩色图像融合算法。基于目标特征将红外图像分割为目标区域和背景区域,以人类视觉的生物机理和感受野的数学模型为基础,利用差分高斯函数(Difference of Gaussians,DOG)模拟视觉拮抗特性,对目标区域和背景区域用改进的感受野模型和不同的彩色映射规则进行伪彩色图像融合。实验结果显示:该算法能够保留图像共有特征,突出独有特征,融合图像色彩自然、目标突出,具有良好的视觉效果。     

基于VFGPIR联合特征的决策级加权融合检测方法

车载前视地表成像雷达(VFGPIR)探测浅埋目标时面临虚警率过高问题,可利用序列图像特征的联合检测解决这一问题.首先利用Fisher鉴别比(FDR)定量评估从单帧和序列图像中提取的单个特征的鉴别能力;然后针对单个最优序列特征无法满足探测指标要求提出一种基于决策级加权融合的多特征联合检测方法;最后利用接收机工作特性(ROC)曲线来验证所提方法的有效性.试验结果表明:序列特征比单帧图像特征具有更好的鉴别能力;所提方法性能优于单个最优序列特征、特征向量和多数票融合准则对应的检测结果,有望满足实际探雷应用需求.     

基于相关度和注意力聚焦的图像内容检索

基于内容的检索中对图像和视频帧的处理是以色彩、形状和纹理等为基本特征,这些特征在图像背景比较单一的情况下容易获得。一旦图像背景为色彩和纹理均很复杂的图像时,图像中目标的颜色和形状等特征就很难获得。若将从计算机视觉中引出的相关度和注意力聚焦两个概念用于从复杂背景图像中定位和选取最有关的信息,则能够有效地检索到最匹配的图像。本文通过对相关度和注意力聚焦两个概念的讨论,介绍了计算机视觉对基于内容检索的作用,尤其是在可视示例查询ＱＶＥ（ＱｕｅｒｙｂｙＶｉｓｕａｌＥｘａｍｐｌｅ）的情况下从大图像数据库中检索图像的情况     

基于自注意力和类监督的遥感图像跨模态检索

针对智能化联合作战场景中,情报分析人员对海量无标签遥感图像进行信息检索时面临的大数据问题,提出适用于遥感图像的文本-视觉跨模态检索技术框架,并对其中核心的跨模态检索模型进行针对性改进,构建一种基于自注意力模块和类监督约束联合训练的深度学习模型。通过引入类监督指导的全局-局部视觉特征提取模块、主导语义掩码建模的文本特征提取模块,以及融合文本-视觉语义信息的交叉提取模块,提升检索效果,实现在无图像描述标签情况下的文本-视觉跨模态语义检索。公开数据集上与相关算法的对比实验,证明该方案的先进性与可行性。     

无人机保距跟踪中的视觉跟踪算法研究

针对固定翼无人机对地面目标进行保距跟踪过程中不能稳定获取目标图像的问题,设计了一种提高视觉目标跟踪稳定性的算法。该算法基于核相关滤波算法,提出了线性旋转子空间的概念,用于估计平面外旋转后的目标图像,在跟踪的过程中通过跟踪效果判断是否对线性旋转子空间进行校正。这种更新机制提高了在相对位置不断变化的情况下视觉跟踪的稳定性和准确性,有效地降低了跟踪漂移的程度。算法在无人机跟踪视角的视觉跟踪数据集中进行了测试,结果显示在跟踪的准确性和鲁棒性上明显好于当前主流跟踪算法。并使用固定翼无人机进行了实机飞行,验证了算法的可行性。     

并行时域自适应算法在电大目标瞬态散射中的应用

基于电磁场时域积分方程(TDIE)数值技术计算复杂目标的瞬态散射特性,其计算量和内存需求大,采用时域自适应算法(TDAIM)降低了TDIE的计算规模。在研究TDAIM并行算法的基础上,开发了基于.NET Remoting的电磁场分布式数值计算方案。数值结果表明,该方案显著提高了TDAIM的计算效率,为解决电大目标瞬态电磁散射问题提供了一条有效途径。     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.