Recognizing target variants and articulations in synthetic aperture radar images

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 712-723

  Bhanu, Bir ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h}   Jones III, Grinnell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^g HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INVARIANCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANKS (MILITARY);

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS; MAGNITUDE CONSTRAINTS; MODEL BASED RECOGNITION; MULTIATTRIBUTE HASHING; QUASIINVARIANCE OF FEATURES;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033749454     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602418     Document Type: Article

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