Nonuniformity correction of infrared image sequences using the constant-statistics constraint

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1148-1151

  Harris, John G ^a   Chiang, Yu Ming ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

GHOSTING ARTIFACT; INFRARED IMAGE SEQUENCES; NONUNIFORMITY CORRECTION ALGORITHMS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0032662376     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.777098     Document Type: Article

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