Point target detection in IR image sequences: A hypothesis-testing approach based on target and clutter temporal profile modeling

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2270-2278

  Tzannes, Alexis P ^a   Brooks, Dana H ^b,c  

^a AWARE INC   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MODELS; PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TESTING;

CLUTTER MODELLING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POINT TARGET DETECTION; TARGET MODELLING; TEMPORAL PROCESSING;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0034248816     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1305541     Document Type: Article

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