A voting-based approach for fast object recognition in underwater acoustic images

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-65

  Foresti, Gian Luca ^a,b,c,e   Murino, Vittorio ^a,b,c,e   Regazzoni, Carlo S ^b,c,e   Trucco, Andrea ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c University of Genoa ^*

^d DIBE   (Italy)

^e IEEE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic imaging; Image line pattern recognition; Object attitude estimation; Object recognition; Underwater vehicles; Voting methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SONAR; SUBMARINES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

OBJECT ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; VOTING METHOD;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

EID: 0030644992     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/48.557540     Document Type: Article

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