False alarm reduction by the and-ing of multiple multivariate Gaussian classifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5089, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-57

  Dobeck, Gerald J ^a   Cobb, J Tory ^a  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ATR; Fusion; Mine classification; Mine detection; Multivariate Gaussian classification; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFIERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SONAR;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION (ATR);

AMMUNITION;

EID: 0242719870     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.487782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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