Superellipse fitting for the classification of mine-like shapes in side-scan sonar images

Oceans Conference Record (IEEE)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 23-28

  Dura E ^a   Bell, J M ^a   Lane, D M ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

SUPERELLIPSE FITTING MODEL;

SONAR;

EID: 0038648170     PISSN: 01977385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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