US Patent 10922586 Automatic target recognition with reinforcement learning

An apparatus for automatic target recognition with reinforcement learning is provided. The apparatus receives an image of a scene and performs an automatic target recognition on the image to detect objects in the image as candidate targets. The apparatus divides the candidate targets into subsets of candidate targets and performs a verification of the automatic target recognition to identify true targets in the image. In the verification, the apparatus solicits user input to manually identify some true targets in the image. The verification is performed according to a reinforcement learning process to minimize a total verification time.