Geometric, Algebraic, and Thermophysical Techniques for Object Recognition in IR Imagery

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-97

  Michel, J D ^a   Nandhakumar, N ^b   Saxena, Tushar ^c   Kapur, Deepak ^c  

^a AbTech Corp   (United States)

^b LG Electronics Inc   (South Korea)

^c State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared image understanding; Object recognition; Thermophysical invariance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; POLYNOMIALS;

INFRARED IMAGERY; THERMOPHYSICAL INVARIANCE;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032187338     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1997.0669     Document Type: Article

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