A New Implementation of the Mellin Transform and its Application to Radar Classification of Ships

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn PAMI-5, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 191-199

  Zwicke, Philip E ^a   Kiss, Imre ^a,b  

^a UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Norden Systems ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Fourier Mellin transform; Mellin transform; modified Mellin transform; radar signatures; scale invariant; ship classification

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SHIPS - CLASSIFICATION;

MELLIN TRANSFORM; RADAR CLASSIFICATION;

RADAR;

EID: 0020718714     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.1983.4767371     Document Type: Article

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