Robust morphological detection of sea mines in side-scan sonar images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4394, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 1103-1115

  Batman, Sinan ^a   Goutsias, John ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Mine Detection; Mathematical Morphology; Pattern Classification; Side Scan Sonar Imagery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MINING ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SONAR;

SEA MINE DETECTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0035758550     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.445438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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