Adaptive Hidden Markov Models for extended landmine detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4394, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 476-482

  Mystkowski, Miroslaw ^a   Gader, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar; Hidden Markov Models; Landmine detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM);

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 0035759191     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.445500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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