Integrated Analysis of Thermal and Visual Images for Scene Interpretation

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 469-481

  Nandhakumar, N ^a   Aggarwal, J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; infrared imagery; multisensor fusion; perception; thermography

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGING; THERMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER PERCEPTION OF OUTDOOR SCENES; MULTISENSOR FUSIONS; THERMAL IMAGES;

VISION;

EID: 0024051277     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.3911     Document Type: Article

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