New metric for predicting target acquisition performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5076, Issue , 2003, Pages 28-40

  Vollmerhausen, Richard H ^a   Jacobs, Eddie ^a   Driggers, Ronald G ^a  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image quality; Performance metrics; Target acquisition; Target identification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COLORED NOISE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242551066     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.487215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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