Leveraging The Data Gathering and Analysis Phases to Gain Situational Awareness

Abstract

Situational Awareness (SA) is the process of collecting observations, understanding their meaning and projection of new possible updates. It is applied in several dynamic and complex environments like aviation, air traffic control, power plant operations, military command and control. Object classification in infrared images is a crucial component of smart surveillance systems. In this paper, a robust framework for person-vehicle classification is proposed, which classifies objects with 97.2% accuracy and successfully achieves its intended use in challenging real-world situations. Some of these challenges are: Random camera viewpoints and low resolution infrared images. The main concern of this framework is enhancing the preprocessing phase to achieve higher classification accuracy. This paper provides an improved classification process accompanied with interpolation process for extracting the concerned features (objects) in infrared images. This framework increases the classification accuracy and overcome some potential problems in the data analysis phase of Situational Awareness (SA).

The proposed system is simulated using MATLAB environment and achieves accurate results by relying on powerful distinguishable features extraction, high productive preprocessing workflow, high quality interpolation and classification framework. Experimental results prove the effectiveness of the proposed framework. The obtained results are compared against the results obtained from other technique.

Keywords::

• Situational Awareness
• Image
• Fusion
• Data Analysis
• Preprocessing
• Neural Networks

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Yaser Khamayseh

Yaser Khamayseh is an associate professor in Computer Science Dept. at Jordan University of Science and Technology. He received Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan, in 1998. He finished his Master's in Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada in 2001. Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Alberta, Canada, in 2007. Dr. Khamayseh joined Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2007. Dr. Khamayseh has more than 15 years of experience in research and teaching in the field of data communication and computer networks in different institutions. He worked at TR Labs for testing high speed network devices. His research interests include simulation and modeling, wireless networks, performance evaluation, security, next generation Internet, and evolutionary computation. Dr. Khamayseh has more than 40 published articles in international journals and conferences. Dr. Khamayseh is member of IEEE and has received several awards.

Wail Mardini

Wail Mardini is an associate professor at the Computer Science Dept. at Taibah University/Yanbu branch since September 2013. Dr. Mardini received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Ottawa/Canada at 2006 and his Master's degree from University of New Brunswick/Canada at 2001. Dr. Mardini worked before at the Computer Science department at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) from 2006 until 2013. Dr. Mardini was the CS department chair during the academic years 2010/2011 and 2011/2012, and the faculty vice dean during the academic year 2012/2013. Dr. Mardini has many publications in the area of network survivability, wireless and wireless sensor networks, and optical-wireless networks. He is currently working on wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, optical network survivability, WiMax technology, scheduling in parallel computing and intrusion detection in database techniques.

Hadeel Tbashate

Hadeel Tbashate received Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Information Technology from Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Irbid, Jordan, in 2006. She finished her Master's degree in Computer Science from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2011. Her research interest includes topics in situation awareness, image fusion and wireless networks. Since 2006, she has worked with several ICT Jordanian and American companies like ESTARTA, ESKADENIA, Choozon and Cisco Systems Inc. She had extensive vacation work experience in Projects management and consultation, ICT, healthcare services, business development, research and analysis, Quality Assurance, CMMI processes, standards and Practices, Risk management and planning activities, affiliate marketing, mobile and online content, shipping and logistics, Royal Protocol accounting System, Insurance, and Income Taxation businesses and industries. Currently, she is working as a Senior Projects Manager/Consultant at Cisco Jordan under Corporate Social Responsibility Program (CSR) on the Jordan Healthcare Initiative (JHI).