Computing visual target distinctness through selective filtering, statistical features, and visual patterns

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 267-281

  Fdez Vidal, Xose R ^a   Toet, Alexander ^b   Garcia, J A ^c   Fdez Valdivia, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL CORRELATION;

IMAGE REPRESENTATIONAL MODELS; VISUAL TARGET DISTINCTNESS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0033895373     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602360     Document Type: Article

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