Military target identification using Simulated Annealing

The application of Simulated Annealing for the identification of Military Targets, images of which can be both noisy and noise free, nominal and transformed, has been investigated in this paper. The images of Military Targets of an enemy are captured by an unmanned reconnaissance spy plane and then are interpreted by an expert. In the absence of an expert, Simulated Annealing can be used to identify the enemy targets. The potential of Simulated Annealing behaving as a Pattern Recognizer to recognize images even when they appear transformed, viz., rotated, translated and scaled, besides noisy, has been studied. Performance of Simulated Annealing during different temperatures has also been studied on experimental cases.