Detection of aircraft in video sequences using a predictive optical flow algorithm

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 523-530

  McCandless, Jeffrey W ^a,b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Gradient; Object detection; Optical flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001272713     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602130     Document Type: Article

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