Wavelet transforms of cluttered images and their application to computing the probability of detection

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3019-3025

  Meitzler, Thomas J ^a,c,d,e   Karlsen, Robert E ^a,e   Gerhart, Grant R ^a,e   Sohn, Euijung ^a   Singh, Harpreet ^b  

^a US Army Tank Automotive Command   (United States)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d US Army TACOM Research and Engineering Center (TARDEC)

^e SPIE ^*

Author keywords

Clutter metrics; Infrared images; Target acquisition; Theory of signal detection; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006421292     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600987     Document Type: Article

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