On the power of algorithm fusion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4394, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 1092-1102

  Dobeck, Gerald J ^a  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm fusion; Automatic classification; Automatic detection; Automatic target recognition; Data fusion; Mine detection; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MINING ENGINEERING; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

MINE DETECTION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0035758944     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.445437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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