Thermophysical algebraic invariants from infrared imagery for object recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-51

  Michel, J ^a   Nandhakumar, N ^a   Veiten, V ^a  

^a AbTech Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Image understanding; Invariance; Model based vision; Physics based computer vision; Thermal image

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER VISION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; INFRARED IMAGING; INVARIANCE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

SURFACE GEOMETRY; SURFACE REFLECTION; THERMOPHYSICAL INVARIANCE;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030826030     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.566809     Document Type: Article

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