Location of target with random gray levels in correlated background with optimal processors and preprocessings

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2660-2670

  Guérault, Frédéric ^a,b,c   Signac, Laurent ^a   Goudail, François ^a,c,d,e   Réfrégier, Philippe ^a,f,g,h,i  

^a Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

^b Ecl Sup Sci Technol l'I   (France)

^c Signal and Image Laboratory   (France)

^d Ecole Superieure d'Optique   (France)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f Ecl Sup Phys Chim Indust V ^*  (France)

^g PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

ⁱ THALES   (France)

Author keywords

Correlation pattern recognition; Optical signal processing; Target location; Tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004549087     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601316     Document Type: Article

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