Natural object classification using artificial neural networks

In this paper we apply artificial neural networks for classifying texture data of various natural objects found in FLIR images. Hermite functions are used for texture feature extraction from segmented regions of interest in natural scenes taken as a video sequence. A total of 2680 samples for a total of twelve different classes are used for object recognition. The results on correctly identifying twelve natural objects in scenes are compared across ten folds of the cross-validation study. Neural networks are found to be extremely effective in robust classification of our data giving an average recognition rate of 91.8%