Clutter modeling in infrared images using genetic programming

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2359-2371

  Voicu, Liviu I ^a,d,e   Uddin, Mosleh ^a   Myler, Harley R ^b,f   Gallagher, Anthony ^b,f   Schuler, Julien ^c,g,h  

^a Systems Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d Frontier Techonology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^g I Math Associates   (United States)

^h Engineering Program   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; VISION;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING; HUMAN VISUAL PERCEPTION; SUPERVISED LEARNING MECHANISM; TARGET DETECTION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0034264903     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1287995     Document Type: Article

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