Robust thermophysics-based interpretation of radiometrically uncalibrated IR images for ATR and site change detection

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-78

  Nandhakumar, N ^a,b   Michel, Jonathan D ^a,c   Arnold, D Gregory ^a,d   Tsihrintzis, George A ^a,c   Velten, Vince ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Electroglas Inc   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETRY;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION (ATR); SITE CHANGE DETECTOR; THERMOPHYSICAL ALGEBRAIC INVARIANCE (TAI) FORMULATION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0030865463     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.552097     Document Type: Article

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